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Software Engineer Interview Experience

June 1, 2014
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Referred by a friend, I quickly got a phone interview one week after.

First, I described my current work, projects, and experience on my resume. Then, I was asked about the difference between interface inheritance and implementation inheritance.

The coding problem was simple: binary search.

Questions

Follow up with this:

Someone modified your binary search code, and the result is bad. The modified version may no longer be a binary search.

Create a test case to determine if the code is still a binary search without having the source code on hand.

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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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