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Software Engineer Interview Experience

October 25, 2014
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Skip the first initial interview, as I performed well in their interview one year ago. The onsite consisted of 5 rounds.

Ten questions were asked, all focused on coding. There were no design questions. One question was from "Cracking the Coding Interview."

Questions

Design an algorithm to compress a string. If there are multiple repeated characters, like 'aaaa', replace them with 'a3'. The algorithm also needs to deal with numbers and mathematical equations.

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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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