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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

September 1, 2015
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I was contacted by a recruiter on LinkedIn. I had a phone screen later that month and an onsite interview a few weeks later. I had a follow-up remote interview two weeks after the onsite.

The phone screen question was a fairly straightforward Google Doc data structures question. The four one-on-one onsite interview questions were largely data structures with an appreciable algorithms component. The follow-up question was a combinatorics/set theory-type question.

Overall, the process was fair but challenging.

Questions

Data structures predominated, but there was also an emphasis on algorithms and some applied math.

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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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