Core Engineering Interview Experience - Mountain View, California
Process
First, there is an online test of 10 questions on HackerRank. It involves:
- 1 programming question
- 1 debugging question
- 8 multiple-choice questions
If you crack that, there are two rounds of on-site interviews, where you meet around five engineers and one manager.
Questions
Layout of inherited objects, table layout, and how virtual functions are inherited.
The interviewer started with a base class containing a virtual function and an inherited class. Then, they proceeded to access member functions and data from these base class objects and inherited class objects.
The interview question was to explain, using the vtable and the memory layout for each of these class instances, how and why the correct definition of the virtual function is resolved.
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The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Pure Storage Core Engineering role in Mountain View, California.
Success Rate
Pure Storage's interview process for their Core Engineering roles in Mountain View, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
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Candidates reported having very good feelings for Pure Storage's Core Engineering interview process in Mountain View, California.
Pure Storage Work Experiences
- 5.0Good Pay, Skills UnderusedSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeMountain View, California, United StatesJuly 17, 2022Pros: Work-life balance and pay.Cons: skills are not widely used
- 4.0Great Culture, Few ConsEngineer • Former EmployeeMountain View, California, United StatesOctober 20, 2025Pros: Overall good culture. They really went out of their way to have different groups within an organization work together and socialize together, etc.Cons: Not much as far as a company goes.
- 5.0A great company focuses on executionEngineering Manager • Current EmployeeMountain View, California, United StatesMarch 12, 2021Pros: Open culture, lots of smart people, lots of interesting projects, career growth, and impactful projects.Cons: None. One of the best companies in my professional career.
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