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Software Engineer Interview Experience

December 1, 2015
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview was fine. I was asked a little about my experience and then proceeded to coding questions. The coding questions were doable. One of the interviewers had a thick Italian accent and was difficult to understand. Otherwise, everything else was good. Questions were deliberately asked in a vague manner, and they were checking whether I clarified everything related to the question before jumping into the solution.

Questions

  1. Merging overlapping intervals

  2. Given a list of words and an abbreviation, I have to write a function which returns true or false about whether the abbreviation maps to exactly one word or not.

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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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