Google

Software Engineer Interview Experience

April 11, 2021

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Attend an interview at Google. The problem is hard.

The quiz: Find the number of elements in a sorted array. You need to design an algorithm which is as fast as possible.

Questions

Find an element from a sorted array.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3,728 interview experiences for the Google Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

12%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive59%

Neutral29%

Negative12%

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

Google Work Experiences

Great opportunity, but be wary of the hype

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Top-notch engineering. Just being around other skilled engineers and seeing how things are done causes you to become more skilled. Friendly people. Lots of small perks.

Cons: Inconsistent product direction. There's a lot of internal joking about the short time between teams being shuffled, and this means it's difficult to see projects through to completion. Senior leadership seems more focused on cost-cutting than effective long-term vision. There's lots of talk about respecting each other, but when the chips are down, leadership does not follow through on that.

Great opportunity, but be wary of the hype

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Top-notch engineering. Just being around other skilled engineers and seeing how things are done causes you to become more skilled. Friendly people. Lots of small perks.

Cons: Inconsistent product direction. There's a lot of internal joking about the short time between teams being shuffled, and this means it's difficult to see projects through to completion. Senior leadership seems more focused on cost-cutting than effective long-term vision. There's lots of talk about respecting each other, but when the chips are down, leadership does not follow through on that.

Great culture - not as buzzing as the US

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Pros: Great company - many great opportunities to learn and deliver value.

Cons: Sometimes it feels like we are at the whim of other offices.

Great culture - not as buzzing as the US

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Pros: Great company - many great opportunities to learn and deliver value.

Cons: Sometimes it feels like we are at the whim of other offices.

Great compensation, sluggish progress

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Zürich, Switzerland

Pros: The money and people are good.

Cons: The managers get in the way.

Great compensation, sluggish progress

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Zürich, Switzerland

Pros: The money and people are good.

Cons: The managers get in the way.

Great opportunity, but be wary of the hype

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Top-notch engineering. Just being around other skilled engineers and seeing how things are done causes you to become more skilled. Friendly people. Lots of small perks.

Cons: Inconsistent product direction. There's a lot of internal joking about the short time between teams being shuffled, and this means it's difficult to see projects through to completion. Senior leadership seems more focused on cost-cutting than effective long-term vision. There's lots of talk about respecting each other, but when the chips are down, leadership does not follow through on that.

4.0
Great opportunity, but be wary of the hype
Software Engineer • Current Employee
March 13, 2023
Pros: Top-notch engineering. Just being around other skilled engineers and seeing how things are done causes you to become more skilled. Friendly people. Lots of small perks.
Cons: Inconsistent product direction. There's a lot of internal joking about the short time between teams being shuffled, and this means it's difficult to see projects through to completion. Senior leadership seems more focused on cost-cutting than effective long-term vision. There's lots of talk about respecting each other, but when the chips are down, leadership does not follow through on that.

Great culture - not as buzzing as the US

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Pros: Great company - many great opportunities to learn and deliver value.

Cons: Sometimes it feels like we are at the whim of other offices.

5.0
Great culture - not as buzzing as the US
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
June 26, 2023
Pros: Great company - many great opportunities to learn and deliver value.
Cons: Sometimes it feels like we are at the whim of other offices.

Great compensation, sluggish progress

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Zürich, Switzerland

Pros: The money and people are good.

Cons: The managers get in the way.

4.0
Great compensation, sluggish progress
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Zürich, Switzerland
March 11, 2022
Pros: The money and people are good.
Cons: The managers get in the way.

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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