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Software Engineer Tools and Infrastructure Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

February 1, 2017
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I was contacted by a recruiter and, after a phone call, filled out some information. I was then set up with a phone screening.

About five days after my phone screening, my recruiter contacted me again and told me I would be moving on to the onsite interview.

I was then placed in contact with another recruiter at the location where I would be interviewing. Over the course of about a week and a half, we set up my trip out there.

Once on campus, I had four interviews, lasting about 45 minutes each, and a lunch interview.

They asked the average tricky coding questions. I would talk through an algorithm with the interviewer and then put the algorithm into code.

About two weeks after the onsite interview, I reached out to my recruiter for feedback. We scheduled a time to call within the next couple of days, and I was informed I wouldn't be moving on or getting an offer.

It was a pretty good interview process if you're familiar with the whole coding interview game. I was thankful that I was able to get an answer within two weeks, as Google can sometimes go a little long without updating you.

Questions

Most problems happened to be about some kind of string parsing/manipulation (palindrome problems, word detection, etc.).

However, the one I had the hardest time with was an array-based find all subsets problem.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Google Software Engineer Tools and Infrastructure role in Mountain View, California.

Success Rate

33%
Pass Rate

Google's interview process for their Software Engineer Tools and Infrastructure roles in Mountain View, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

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Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's Software Engineer Tools and Infrastructure interview process in Mountain View, California.

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