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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

September 1, 2016
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

A Google recruiter contacted me from LinkedIn, and then I took two phone interviews. It took a long time to arrange all the interviews, and the recruiter replied very slowly. It almost cost me two months to finish the OA and phone interviews.

Questions

First phone interview:

  1. There are two arrays. The two arrays are almost the same, except one array has an extra element than the other. Find that element.
  2. Given a rows x cols screen and a sentence represented by a list of words, find how many times the given sentence can be fitted on the screen.

Second phone interview:

  • Top K frequency keywords

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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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