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Software Engineer Interview Experience

August 1, 2016
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The first couple of interviews were all over the phone, with participants writing code in a Google Doc.

The problems were easy enough, but using only the phone and a Google Doc for coding was somewhat inconvenient.

Google should implement a better system for conducting remote interviews.

Questions

Given an array of strings, return true if one of the strings is exactly one character different from any other string in the 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.

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