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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      5 May 2009
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Mountain View, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Apr 2009

      Interview

      Send the resume to the online site and was email back in a week. Then had a screening interview with the recruiter who explained the process and learned about my background. Two weeks later I received an invitation to a phone interview with an engineer. He tested my knowledge in three possible IT scenarios, asked question and had me expand on possible solutions.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      If you want to distribute a large file (gigabytes) in a large (100+ machines) park how do you do it?
      5 Answers

      Question 2

      Pets +------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | id | int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment | | breed | varchar(255) | NO | | NULL | | | acquisition_date | datetime | NO | | NULL | | +------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ Customers +-------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +-------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | id | int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment | | name | varchar(255) | NO | | NULL | | +-------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ Sales +-------------+----------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +-------------+----------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | customer_id | int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL | | | pet_id | int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL | | | date | datetime | NO | | NULL | | +-------------+----------+------+-----+---------+-------+ Q1 How many pets of each breed has the shop ever owned?
      4 Answers

      Question 3

      Look for a string in a very long string - a needle in a haystack. Write the program in pseudo-code.
      5 Answers

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      Anonymous interview candidate
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