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Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience

August 1, 2018
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Process

Applied for their winter internship in August.

Was sent a code sample/challenge immediately, along with a survey asking many behavioral-type questions. The coding challenge was fairly easy.

A few days later, I was contacted about scheduling two back-to-back technical phone interviews, which I completed two weeks later. The first one was much harder than the second, though I don't think this was coordinated.

Make sure you get a working solution (though they don't try or expect your code to compile), even if it's just brute force.

Three weeks later, my application was approved by the hiring committee, and I was sent the winter 2019 host matching form. Because I was fairly early in the process, projects were still being approved, and it was four weeks before I heard back from anyone. Had a non-technical host interview within the week of hearing back, and an offer later that day.

Questions

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 482 interview experiences for the Google Software Engineer (Internship) role in United States.

Success Rate

17%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive70%
Neutral25%
Negative5%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in United States.

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