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Software Engineer Interview Experience

March 10, 2015
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied online, about one week later, they will contact you by phone.

They want to ensure you are really interested in coding and have some coding experience.

After you get the call, they will send you an email with a link. The link will expire in a week.

Clicking that link will take you to Codility to do the programming part.

Questions

It was an algorithms question, which would be O(n^3) with Bruce's solution, but you have to optimize it.

Time complexity: O(n) Space complexity: O(n)

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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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