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Software Engineer Interview Experience

October 1, 2015
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied online through University Recruiting and also emailed the recruiter in charge of our school.

The first round was a phone interview, involving typing on a Google Doc while on a call.

The interviewer was very friendly, patient, and helpful in providing hints. Overall, it was a great learning experience.

Questions

Given a social network as a graph, return the closest path to a given node from a given node.

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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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