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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Zürich, Switzerland

June 1, 2021
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

On-site interviews were split over two days.

The first day went rather well, apart from receiving incorrect meeting links and having to coordinate the meetings via a shared document and telephone.

An email was received rescheduling meetings for the following day to 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM. After finishing the 1:00 PM interview, I spent almost an hour waiting in a Google Meet room for the 2:00 PM interview. Communication with the recruiter yielded the information that the meeting had been pushed to 3:00 PM. After cancelling some other meetings I had scheduled for the same time slot, I was able to complete the interview.

Emailing the recruiter after this whole process resulted in them insisting that I was notified of the change, even though I only ever received information about the meeting being at 2:00 PM.

This rather unprofessional behavior soured the whole experience. The last interview went rather poorly due to having to solve these issues and cancel other important meetings.

Questions

Graph question requiring knowledge of Depth-First Search and cycle detection using this algorithm.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 41 interview experiences for the Google Software Engineer role in Zürich, Zurich.

Success Rate

17%
Pass Rate

Google's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Zürich, Zurich is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive73%
Neutral15%
Negative12%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's Software Engineer interview process in Zürich, Zurich.

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