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Software Engineer Interview Experience
Interview process
Typical Google screening round, I fumbled during the implementation using c++, hence got rejected. Make sure to write working code and go through test cases.
- Recruiter screen
- Phone interview
Interview rounds
3 questions across 2 roundsRecruiter screen
2 questionsQuestion types asked
Specific questions asked
Phone interview
1 questionQuestion types asked
Specific questions asked
Similar to Time for Rotten oranges to propagate
Interview tips
Make sure to write working code and go through test cases. Google focuses a lot on How's ? as well.
Company culture
No red flags, recruiters are well trained and interviews are still the typical google algorithm interviews.
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“My strongest Google round was with a senior interviewer who never opened a LeetCode prompt. He just asked what I knew about algorithms, pushed me into distributed merge sort from first principles, and apparently got more signal from that than a standard coding screen.”
“One of my onsite interviewers pasted a prompt that was basically one sentence long and then just sat back. That round made it click for me that Google was testing how I clarified and structured the problem, not whether I could speedrun a DSA coding problem.”
