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Software Engineering Interview Experience

January 1, 2017
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Referred by a Google employee, I completed an online coding test and then had two phone screens.

The questions were hard, but honestly, not impossible and very doable overall.

I highly recommend scheduling your Google interview after some other interviews so you have practice. If I had scheduled mine just a few weeks later, when I had already faced similar interviews at many other companies, I'm confident I would have passed the interview.

The questions weren't out-of-this-world difficult. I heard that I was rejected about two weeks after my interviews.

Questions

Questions on graph searching (think DFS, BFS), tree traversal (think inorder, preorder, postorder), array and string manipulation.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 123 interview experiences for the Google Software Engineering role in United States.

Success Rate

26%
Pass Rate

Google's interview process for their Software Engineering roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive67%
Neutral24%
Negative9%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's Software Engineering interview process in United States.

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