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Software Engineer Interview Experience

June 1, 2016
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I was contacted by a recruiter.

The process took two weeks.

I had a phone screen with a senior engineer. He gave me a technical question, and I solved it without issue. We talked about possible optimizations and the running time/space complexity.

I believe he wanted me to solve it in a different way, as he was asking me to describe the running complexity in terms of a graph. This confused me a bit since I wasn't thinking in terms of a graph. He didn't seem impressed by my answers.

Questions

Given a link to a website and helper functions, print the title of the linked page and all the titles of the page's links, and so on.

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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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