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Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience

October 1, 2017
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I found the secret foobar link after searching for technical terms on Google.

I finished level 3 of the challenge and was contacted by a recruiter.

I had to fill out a questionnaire about my background and interests and then scheduled a phone interview.

The first phone interview went fine, even though I didn't get the right answer on some edge cases.

After a while, I was contacted by the recruiter for a second phone interview.

This one was supposed to be harder, and it did not go well.

I received a phone call saying that I was rejected after 3 days.

Questions

Given an input string and a list of pairs of commands and their applicable string lengths, apply the commands in order.

Given a list containing nodes of a tree in a triplet format (node ID, parent ID, weight), find the weight at each node, which is the sum of the weights of all its descendants.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 535 interview experiences for the Google Software Engineer (Internship) role in United States.

Success Rate

19%
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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