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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Seattle, Washington

February 1, 2015
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

After an informative interview with a recruiter who found me on LinkedIn, I had one fairly easy phone screen. The recruiter asked me a philosophical question about AI (I have a Philosophy background) and a technical question.

After passing this round, I had four one-on-one, hour-long interviews on-site in Seattle. They weren't incredibly hard, but it was my first interview out of college, and I didn't do well in two of them.

Questions

I can't go into specifics, but surprisingly, there were no questions regarding Hash Tables.

Almost all of them involved recursion, and one interviewer asked me a math question.

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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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