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Software Engineering Interview Experience

November 27, 2014
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied online through their general link for internship applications.

I was surprised to hear back just a few days later from a recruiting coordinator, who asked me to choose three time slots for phone interviews.

The interviews ended up being about three weeks after our initial contact. The phone interviews were rather relaxed; the interviewers were very nice.

I definitely over-studied. I was memorizing complicated graph algorithms and other high-level topics, and the interview questions ended up being much simpler than I expected.

The three interviews were all back-to-back with 15-minute breaks in between, and I think I did pretty well overall.

There was one programming problem (out of six total) I was not able to answer fully, and I'm going to be kicking myself about it for some time.

I have not heard back from them yet (the interview was yesterday), so there's no word on an offer or no offer.

Questions

I will honor the NDA I signed with Google, but I will definitely be comfortable with the edge cases of simple algorithms and data structures.

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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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