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Software Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York

October 1, 2016
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied by contacting a recruiter on LinkedIn. I quickly set up the phone screen after a brief chat over the phone.

One round of phone interview involved coding on a blank Google Doc for the question: "Given two int arrays A and B, and an int c, return the total number of pairs (a, b) where a is from A and b is from B, and a + b <= c."

The on-site consisted of 5 interviews.

Questions

  1. Given a node in a BST where each node has a pointer to its parent, find the next largest node.

  2. Implement String encode and decode.

Given an int array A, return an int array B such that A[i + B[i]] is the first element in A after A[i] that is greater than or equal to A[i].

Design Twitter trending topics.

Given a list of files, each of which contains some "require METHOD_NAME" lines and "provide METHOD_NAME" lines. Return a working order of files to be processed.

Implement a telephone number management system that assigns randomly, recycles, and checks availability of 10-digit numbers.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 344 interview experiences for the Google Software Engineer role in New York, New York.

Success Rate

13%
Pass Rate

Google's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in New York, New York is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive69%
Neutral21%
Negative10%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's Software Engineer interview process in New York, New York.

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