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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

August 1, 2018
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview was short and purely technical. There was just an introduction by name, and then it went straight into answering the question posed to me. It was pretty impersonal, but I didn't do all that well on the question anyway, so I suppose I can't complain.

Afterwards, there was about a week and a half before a personal phone call informing me I didn't get an offer. This was followed by an email with some instructions on moving forward and potentially applying again down the line.

Questions

The initial question was essentially a portion of the Merge Sort algorithm, with a generalization to an arbitrary number of inputs as the follow-up.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 142 interview experiences for the Google Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

9%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive55%
Neutral28%
Negative17%

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

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