Google Software Engineer(Internship) interview questions
Updated Jun 1, 2026
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Software Engineer(Internship) applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied online. I interviewed at Google in Oct 2016
Interview
Had 2 phone interviews, followed by behavioral interviews in host matching. The interviews were pretty standard, with questions out of cracking. Code was written in Google docs, while talking on hangouts with the interviewer. The behavioral screens were just over the phone
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Google (Richmond, VA) in Oct 2016
Interview
I applied through a referral. It took 2 weeks for them to reply and set up 2 phone interviews. The interviewers asked some algorithm and design questions that are not too hard, but I screwed up the first one.
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Question 1
Write a function to return a palindromic permutation of a string.
I applied online. I interviewed at Google in Jun 2017
Interview
There are two sessions of 45 minutes each with two different software engineers. The interviewers describe the problem on shared Google doc and ask for the optimum solutions first before you proceed for the brute-force solution. Then the interviewer asks for the complexity of the algorithm that you are going to design. And finally the best solution proceed with coding.