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Software Engineer Interview Experience - United Kingdom

March 8, 2023
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

HR call & initial screening, with questions about background & desired role / locations.

1-hour initial tech interview (video call).

Medium-level coding task (not LeetCode, but general practices applied - array / hash table, complexity estimation).

Reported "mixed signal" as the result, had to take another round.

2nd initial tech interview (video call).

Was asked a question about my diploma work from university 5 years ago (as a warm-up, I believe) - turned out it was related to the interviewer's past experience. The person kept asking follow-up questions, so I got really nervous and failed the real technical question :(

Questions

Generate a game level for Chrome's dinosaur game, represented as an array where numbers signify different obstacles. Difficulty must be adjustable.

Follow-up: Write a verification function to check if a level is doable or not, given the dinosaur can jump only a limited amount of tiles forward.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 106 interview experiences for the Google Software Engineer role in United Kingdom.

Success Rate

8%
Pass Rate

Google's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United Kingdom is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive63%
Neutral27%
Negative9%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's Software Engineer interview process in United Kingdom.

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