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Software Engineer Interview Experience

June 1, 2018
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Cool interview experience.

There will be three interviews.

The first one will be a code challenge. This one is a tough nut to crack. All you have to do before the interview is practice and practice. Most importantly, use a timer when practicing. By practicing, you will develop a sense of understanding questions easily and build confidence.

Coding is like dancing; you have to do it to understand and learn. The code challenge will normally have a lot of edge cases that you need to think about when building your logic.

The second interview will be a phone call with a tech interviewer.

Questions

Signed an NDA.

Try to learn all topics that are important for soft eng:

  • Dynamic programming
  • Recursion
  • Graphs
  • Sorting
  • Scalability
  • Searching
  • Big O
  • Dynamic array
  • Linked List
  • Heap
  • String manipulation

Mostly important algorithms.

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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%

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