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Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience

October 1, 2017
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Process

I applied online. A recruiter contacted me and scheduled time for an interview. I had two 1-hour interviews back-to-back. They were both technical. After that, they got back to me in two days and said they sent my application to hiring managers.

Questions

The first interviewer asked me: "We have a matrix, and we want to go through it. Whenever we see a 0 element, change the whole row and column in the returning matrix to equal 0." I solved it, then he asked me to code it. After I finished coding, he moved to the second question, which was theory. The question was: "How to initialize a Minesweeper game?"

The second interviewer's question was: "We have keys that we want to match to values, and that key matches with that value for a duration 'd'."

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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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