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Software Engineer Interview Experience

February 1, 2014
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied through LinkedIn and received an interview offer.

I was interviewed over the phone for an intern position.

The phone interview consisted of two programming questions:

  • One was an ad hoc question.
  • The other was on graphs.

The interview lasted for one hour.

Questions

For the ad hoc question, they showed one diagram of a water tank and asked to fill it to the maximum. It was not that complicated.

The another one was a graph using DFS to find the longest height.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3,820 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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