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Software Engineer Interview Experience

February 1, 2017
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

An online programming test consisted of two questions and an online behavioral questionnaire.

A few weeks later, I went to an onsite interview. It consisted of four programming interviews and a lunch with an employee.

Every interviewer basically asked me a very short and sometimes vague question and expected me to code the solution. The questions weren't trivial; they took time to think of the solution and write the whole code on the whiteboard.

Know your graph algorithms well: DFS, BFS, and how to code them in your favorite language.

Questions

Given a file system that consists of files and directories, write code that returns the longest path of an image file.

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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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