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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

October 1, 2013
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview went through 5 phases with 5 different current employees:

Phase 1: Introductory phase, discussing my background, the job activities of the person administering this phase, etc.

Phase 2 - 4: Employees asked me some of Google's coding questions (I won't give specifics, as per the agreement). The questions were of average difficulty compared to the samples out there.

Phase 5: Another employee, whose background was close to mine, asked me specific questions about my former research.

Questions

They asked me a specific algorithmic question concerning my PhD research. The question was specific enough, and the interrogation did not go too deep because I think I satisfied the purpose: do I really know the details.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 32 interview experiences for the Google Software Engineer role in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Success Rate

22%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive75%
Neutral19%
Negative6%

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

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