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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

September 1, 2013
Negative ExperienceGot Offer

Process

A recruiter contacted me through LinkedIn.

This was followed by a phone screen and technical interview with a Google Engineer.

I was then invited to an on-site interview.

Finally, I was contacted by the recruiter again.

The whole process was extremely slow and took 3 months.

Questions

Implement memcpy and know how to optimize cases which don't have to be copied byte by byte.

Given a binary tree and a value, find all possible numbers of ways that sum up to the given value.

Behavioral questions...

Design a global system performance monitoring network (basically, know the differences/advantages/disadvantages associated with TCP/UDP).

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 748 interview experiences for the Google Software Engineer role in Mountain View, California.

Success Rate

20%
Pass Rate

Google's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Mountain View, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive64%
Neutral23%
Negative14%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's Software Engineer interview process in Mountain View, California.

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