Process
I spoke to a recruiter who then scheduled a phone interview. This was a relatively easy technical phone interview with a simple coding question, followed by a multi-part, slightly harder question. After a week, I heard back that I had passed, and I then moved on to an on-site interview where I was given five coding/algorithm questions.
Questions
Medium difficulty graph/data structure questions.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Google SRE role in New York, New York.
Success Rate
50%
Pass Rate
Google's interview process for their SRE roles in New York, New York is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Positive50%
Neutral50%
Negative0%
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's SRE interview process in New York, New York.
Google Work Experiences
3.0
Save up, burn out, move on
SRE • Former Employee
Seattle, Washington, United States
February 27, 2020
Pros: You can learn how to do big IT things right by watching people do it wrong at scale.
Cons: Too many strongly opinionated geniuses around.
5.0
Experience at Google
SRE • Former Employee
Mountain View, California, United States
September 19, 2016
Pros: The extra perks, such as a gym and good food, are really good.
The benefits and free transportation to work are a plus working for Google.
Cons: Google is a very big company with really smart people in its teams. Improving the levels is really hard unless you are a pro.
4.0
Can be great. Can suck
SRE • Current Employee
Mountain View, California, United States
February 9, 2015
Pros: Google is still overall a good place to work. It is not the great place to work it once was, but it's not the worst by any means. As it grows, it has lots of big company BS and politics that come with that. If you think Google will make everything you hate about working in corporate America better, you will be very disappointed.
Cons: It all depends on your immediate team and manager. Google is so big now that anything you say about them is not true of a different area, good or bad.
Google wants everyone to live in Mountain View or New York with a total disregard for their ability to afford to live there.
- 3.0Save up, burn out, move onSRE • Former EmployeeSeattle, Washington, United StatesFebruary 27, 2020Pros: You can learn how to do big IT things right by watching people do it wrong at scale.Cons: Too many strongly opinionated geniuses around.
- 5.0Experience at GoogleSRE • Former EmployeeMountain View, California, United StatesSeptember 19, 2016Pros: The extra perks, such as a gym and good food, are really good. The benefits and free transportation to work are a plus working for Google.Cons: Google is a very big company with really smart people in its teams. Improving the levels is really hard unless you are a pro.
- 4.0Can be great. Can suckSRE • Current EmployeeMountain View, California, United StatesFebruary 9, 2015Pros: Google is still overall a good place to work. It is not the great place to work it once was, but it's not the worst by any means. As it grows, it has lots of big company BS and politics that come with that. If you think Google will make everything you hate about working in corporate America better, you will be very disappointed.Cons: It all depends on your immediate team and manager. Google is so big now that anything you say about them is not true of a different area, good or bad. Google wants everyone to live in Mountain View or New York with a total disregard for their ability to afford to live there.
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