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Web Developer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

January 1, 2012

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Round 1:

Given a database, a query returns correct output 99% of the time. However, 1% of the time, it returns wrong output. What could be the possible reasons?
On a 2-D grid, the positions (x,y) of 3 persons are given. Find the meeting point such that the sum of distances of each person from the meeting point is minimized. Now, generalize this to N persons and solve.
A very long question related to hashing. I don't remember it.

Questions

Given a string of parentheses, check if the string is valid.

Example: [[]] is valid, ][][ is not valid.

How would you solve this if the parentheses could be of different types like {, [, (?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Google Web Developer role in Mountain View, California.

Success Rate

33%

Pass Rate

Google's interview process for their Web Developer roles in Mountain View, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive67%

Neutral33%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's Web Developer interview process in Mountain View, California.

Google Work Experiences

Positive and challenging

Web Developer • Former Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: Open bottom-up culture. Never a dull moment.

Cons: Lots of competition from all the very smart coworkers. Promotions are challenging.

Positive and challenging

Web Developer • Former Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: Open bottom-up culture. Never a dull moment.

Cons: Lots of competition from all the very smart coworkers. Promotions are challenging.

Come for the perks, stay for the challenge

Web Developer • Former Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

September 10, 2008

Pros: Great perks. The food at the cafeteria kept me up all night long. The best and brightest engineers. Most people I am working with are very well-rounded, and I feel I could learn a lot from most of them. I can contribute to products which are used by millions of people every day. I enjoy analyzing challenging problems and finding a cost-effective solution. Flexible hours and a relaxing working environment, including all the perks such as free meals.

Cons: When you start work there, they really take the time to make sure that you're trained properly so that you don't feel like a fish out of water, like at other companies. The free lunches, great 401k, etc., you get large bonuses that can make the difference in a long day.

Come for the perks, stay for the challenge

Web Developer • Former Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

September 10, 2008

Pros: Great perks. The food at the cafeteria kept me up all night long. The best and brightest engineers. Most people I am working with are very well-rounded, and I feel I could learn a lot from most of them. I can contribute to products which are used by millions of people every day. I enjoy analyzing challenging problems and finding a cost-effective solution. Flexible hours and a relaxing working environment, including all the perks such as free meals.

Cons: When you start work there, they really take the time to make sure that you're trained properly so that you don't feel like a fish out of water, like at other companies. The free lunches, great 401k, etc., you get large bonuses that can make the difference in a long day.

Nice place to work, but so are a lot of other places

Web Developer • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: If you ever want to leave and go somewhere else, pretty much anyone will hire you if you've worked at Google.

Cons: Too much of an approval process. They don't really care much about web standards. They write horrible HTML code.

Nice place to work, but so are a lot of other places

Web Developer • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: If you ever want to leave and go somewhere else, pretty much anyone will hire you if you've worked at Google.

Cons: Too much of an approval process. They don't really care much about web standards. They write horrible HTML code.

Positive and challenging

Web Developer • Former Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: Open bottom-up culture. Never a dull moment.

Cons: Lots of competition from all the very smart coworkers. Promotions are challenging.

5.0
Positive and challenging
Web Developer • Former Employee
Mountain View, California, United States
July 13, 2014
Pros: Open bottom-up culture. Never a dull moment.
Cons: Lots of competition from all the very smart coworkers. Promotions are challenging.

Come for the perks, stay for the challenge

Web Developer • Former Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

September 10, 2008

Pros: Great perks. The food at the cafeteria kept me up all night long. The best and brightest engineers. Most people I am working with are very well-rounded, and I feel I could learn a lot from most of them. I can contribute to products which are used by millions of people every day. I enjoy analyzing challenging problems and finding a cost-effective solution. Flexible hours and a relaxing working environment, including all the perks such as free meals.

Cons: When you start work there, they really take the time to make sure that you're trained properly so that you don't feel like a fish out of water, like at other companies. The free lunches, great 401k, etc., you get large bonuses that can make the difference in a long day.

3.0
Come for the perks, stay for the challenge
Web Developer • Former Employee
Mountain View, California, United States
September 10, 2008
Pros: Great perks. The food at the cafeteria kept me up all night long. The best and brightest engineers. Most people I am working with are very well-rounded, and I feel I could learn a lot from most of them. I can contribute to products which are used by millions of people every day. I enjoy analyzing challenging problems and finding a cost-effective solution. Flexible hours and a relaxing working environment, including all the perks such as free meals.
Cons: When you start work there, they really take the time to make sure that you're trained properly so that you don't feel like a fish out of water, like at other companies. The free lunches, great 401k, etc., you get large bonuses that can make the difference in a long day.

Nice place to work, but so are a lot of other places

Web Developer • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: If you ever want to leave and go somewhere else, pretty much anyone will hire you if you've worked at Google.

Cons: Too much of an approval process. They don't really care much about web standards. They write horrible HTML code.

3.0
Nice place to work, but so are a lot of other places
Web Developer • Current Employee
Mountain View, California, United States
April 27, 2008
Pros: If you ever want to leave and go somewhere else, pretty much anyone will hire you if you've worked at Google.
Cons: Too much of an approval process. They don't really care much about web standards. They write horrible HTML code.

Google Interview Questions

Two Sum

Find two numbers in a given array that add up to a specific target value, and return their indices. Essentially, you need to efficiently locate the pair that satisfies the sum requirement.

ArraysTwo Pointers

Palindrome Number

Determine whether an integer is a palindrome. That is, it reads the same forwards and backward.

Bit Manipulation

Add Two Numbers

You are given two linked lists, each representing a non-negative integer. Add the two numbers and return the sum as a linked list.

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