Software Engineer Interview Experience - Seoul, South Korea
February 1, 2016
Positive ExperienceGot Offer
Process
I was referred by my friend at Google. It took only a week until I got an interview chance with the current software engineer. The first technical interview took 45 minutes, with no discussion about my career or experiences, but only technical programming problems.
Questions
- When the input is an infinite sequence of numbers starting from 1, what is the nth digit?
e.g.) 123456789101112131415161718192021..... here the 28th digit is 1.
- Convert a float to a string.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 6 interview experiences for the Google Software Engineer role in Seoul, South Korea.
Success Rate
17%
Pass Rate
Google's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Seoul, South Korea is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Positive67%
Neutral17%
Negative17%
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's Software Engineer interview process in Seoul, South Korea.
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5.0
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Great benefits.
Challenging work.
Great coworkers.
Lots of educational perks.
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3.0
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Most colleagues are bright.
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No career growth, too many highly tenured seniors.
Random terminations have everyone in fear, terrible WLB.
Red tape makes basic launches a maze of approvals, permissions, and rubber stamps.
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