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      TSE Engineer and Software Engineer Interview

      Mar 20, 2009
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Mountain View, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Apr 2007

      Interview

      Not surprisingly, the actual interviews were very technical, but mostly fair. Questions were mostly "can you figure out this tricky programming puzzle" type questions, which I generally enjoy, so no real surprises or problems here. The recruiting process, however, was surprisingly unprofessional from the beginning to the end. Things I had to deal with: - Requests to come in for a 4-hour interview with less than 24 hour notice, and no follow-up confirmation (or response in the one case where I had to reschedule). - Kept waiting when I arrived 5 minutes before the scheduled time for over 20 minutes, with no apology or explanation - Handed off between over 5 different recruiters for two positions. Most of the recruiters did not get information from the previous recruiter, so I was requested to send in NDA and employment history information 3 times - After the interviews were concluded, no one in recruiting contacted me for almost a week. I had to contact them, and they bluntly told me I did not get the job, and that I could re-apply in 1 year. I'm not bitter about not getting the job (really. I got a nice job with an equally "popular", thriving company shortly thereafter that will remain nameless). I am, however, disappointed with the treatment I received by their recruiting department, given the company's size and reputation. I guess the idea is that since everyone wants to work there, treating people badly makes no difference in the short-term, since there are plenty of other people waiting in line to interview. Long-term, however, assuming their recruiting department continues in this manner, I have no intention of interviewing there again, and I've convinced many other smart friends/co-workers considering this company to not interview as well.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Describe the process (including some code) on how to create a user identifier that could be passed between websites, that could not be spoofed or easily stolen
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      Write the code to determine if a 2D point is inside a 2D closed polygon.
      2 Answers
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