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Software Engineering Interview Experience

July 1, 2015
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview consisted of two 45-minute technical phone interviews.

The first consisted entirely of a coding problem.

The second included a short description of yourself, data structure questions, a smaller coding problem, and a description of a project you did.

The coding questions were answered on a Google Doc.

Questions

Why would you use a binary tree over a hash table?

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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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