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Software Engineer Interview Experience

November 1, 2015
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied online, and the process took two weeks. The interviewers were not willing to give any hints about the questions. I answered one question the wrong way, which wasted a lot of time.

Questions

At first, we talked about the projects I did before and my working experience. Then, they gave me two algorithm coding questions:

  1. Given two strings S and T, find the shortest substring in S which contains all the characters in T.
  2. Convert a Roman numeral to a decimal number.

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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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