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Software Engineer Interview Experience

September 19, 2022
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Total process duration: 2 months.

  1. Online Assessment:

    • Two problems, LeetCode easy to medium difficulty, solved within 70 minutes.
  2. Onsite Interviews:

    • Four interviews: 1 behavioral, 3 algorithm and data structures.
    • Difficulty: 1 LeetCode easy/medium, 1 LeetCode medium, 1 LeetCode medium/hard.
    • Solved all problems optimally. Missed some edge cases.
  3. Team Matching:

    • Completed after passing interviews.
    • Unfortunately, a hiring freeze began, so team matching lasted one week before the application was closed.

Questions

Binary Search (not trivial)

OOD (implement a class with methods A, B, and C)

Array (something along the line of continuous elements)

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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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