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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Sunnyvale, California

November 1, 2018

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Process

The process, applied through referral, takes 3 months.

First, there is an online coding assessment.

Next are two rounds of on-campus interviews and four rounds of on-site interviews.

The on-site interviews include a lunch round.

Questions

Blackjack
Given an array, find the number of integers that are larger than each element in the array. Count only the integers that are to the right of this element.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 49 interview experiences for the Google Software Engineer role in Sunnyvale, California.

Success Rate

16%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive63%

Neutral31%

Negative6%

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

Google Work Experiences

Good Balance, Slow Process

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Pros: Good work-life balance. Reasonably good pay.

Cons: Too much politics. Too many processes to follow. It's hard to deliver things fast.

Good Balance, Slow Process

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Pros: Good work-life balance. Reasonably good pay.

Cons: Too much politics. Too many processes to follow. It's hard to deliver things fast.

Slow career growth

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

August 28, 2022

Pros: - Good engineering - Good perks - Good for building up your early career

Cons: - Slow career progression. Not ideal for very motivated engineers.

Slow career growth

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

August 28, 2022

Pros: - Good engineering - Good perks - Good for building up your early career

Cons: - Slow career progression. Not ideal for very motivated engineers.

Well-paid and pampered cog in a wheel

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

September 4, 2023

Pros: Amazing pay and benefits, but you feel semi-replaceable in my experience. It's such a big company that if you're working on a well-established product, there is not much you can do except add to testing and maintenance software. Endless number of redundant engineers, and hence why they could lay so many off and continue on fine. But it's so relaxed and people are generally nice.

Cons: Cons in the above too.

Well-paid and pampered cog in a wheel

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

September 4, 2023

Pros: Amazing pay and benefits, but you feel semi-replaceable in my experience. It's such a big company that if you're working on a well-established product, there is not much you can do except add to testing and maintenance software. Endless number of redundant engineers, and hence why they could lay so many off and continue on fine. But it's so relaxed and people are generally nice.

Cons: Cons in the above too.

Good Balance, Slow Process

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Pros: Good work-life balance. Reasonably good pay.

Cons: Too much politics. Too many processes to follow. It's hard to deliver things fast.

4.0
Good Balance, Slow Process
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Sunnyvale, California, United States
June 7, 2021
Pros: Good work-life balance. Reasonably good pay.
Cons: Too much politics. Too many processes to follow. It's hard to deliver things fast.

Slow career growth

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

August 28, 2022

Pros: - Good engineering - Good perks - Good for building up your early career

Cons: - Slow career progression. Not ideal for very motivated engineers.

4.0
Slow career growth
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Sunnyvale, California, United States
August 28, 2022
Pros: - Good engineering - Good perks - Good for building up your early career
Cons: - Slow career progression. Not ideal for very motivated engineers.

Well-paid and pampered cog in a wheel

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

September 4, 2023

Pros: Amazing pay and benefits, but you feel semi-replaceable in my experience. It's such a big company that if you're working on a well-established product, there is not much you can do except add to testing and maintenance software. Endless number of redundant engineers, and hence why they could lay so many off and continue on fine. But it's so relaxed and people are generally nice.

Cons: Cons in the above too.

4.0
Well-paid and pampered cog in a wheel
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Sunnyvale, California, United States
September 4, 2023
Pros: Amazing pay and benefits, but you feel semi-replaceable in my experience. It's such a big company that if you're working on a well-established product, there is not much you can do except add to testing and maintenance software. Endless number of redundant engineers, and hence why they could lay so many off and continue on fine. But it's so relaxed and people are generally nice.
Cons: Cons in the above too.

Google Interview Questions

Two Sum

Find two numbers in a given array that add up to a specific target value, and return their indices. Essentially, you need to efficiently locate the pair that satisfies the sum requirement.

Palindrome Number

Determine whether an integer is a palindrome. That is, it reads the same forwards and backward.

Bit Manipulation

Add Two Numbers

You are given two linked lists, each representing a non-negative integer. Add the two numbers and return the sum as a linked list.

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