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Software Engineer Interview Experience

May 1, 2020
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

1 phone interview 5 interviews on site (4 coding and 1 behavioral. I was not asked a system design question).

Negative experience because one of the interviewers could not speak English, making it hard to communicate.

Another interviewer, I did not understand the question, and he started laughing at me when I was asking him for clarification. It was my last, fifth interview; he should have been more patient explaining the problem.

In general, interviewers were disrespectful to the candidate.

In addition, Google only gives 45-minute interviews instead of 1 hour. Therefore, if you have not seen the question or a similar one, it is impossible to understand. This makes the interview more about how many problems you have practiced than how good an engineer you are. That's why I got offers from all the companies I interviewed with except Google.

Questions

I cannot due to NDA.

But there are:

  • Two dynamic programming questions
  • Two graph questions

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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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