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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Seattle, Washington

February 1, 2011
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Process

I was originally set up with two phone interviews, back to back, at a time convenient to me.

The interviewers really just want you to show what you know.

My second interviewer started asking questions on material that I hadn't learned. Instead of failing me, they set me up with another interview a few weeks later.

The interviews were done on the phone, using a shared Google Document to show work on. There were two programming questions, pretty standard, having to do with data structures and algorithms, that sort of thing.

Questions

In one of the questions in the interview, they asked me to build a tree iterator for a binary tree.

Given a list of strings, return the substring representing the longest common prefix.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 96 interview experiences for the Google Software Engineer role in Seattle, Washington.

Success Rate

16%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive74%
Neutral18%
Negative8%

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

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