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Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience

January 1, 2016
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I had an interview through a referral.

I received an email to schedule two phone interviews.

Both interviews included an algorithmic question, which I had to code in Google Docs as the interviewer observed.

The second interview also included a non-coding question where the interviewer described a requirement, and I had to explain how I would design and implement the system at scale.

Questions

Design a system where a series of events get recorded.

Each event has a timestamp.

We want to have a page that shows the number of events that have occurred within the past minute, hour, 24 hours, and so on.

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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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