Google Software Engineer(Internship) interview questions
based on 820 ratings - Updated Jun 18, 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. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Oct 2022
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2 Interviews, one technical, one half and half. Never heard back after the second one. The interview questions were fair, but I messed up on the second interview which is probably why I didn't hear anything.
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Classic palindrome question was my first question. Pertains to the work being done there apparently.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Google in Sep 2022
Interview
Quite difficult coding assesment with 2 questions. I forgot what exactly they asked. You had to write the unit tests yourself. There were only programming questions involved in the first part of the interview
I applied online. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Google in Jan 2022
Interview
Very lengthy - Resume screening It took about one month to receive a message from a recruiter. - 2 technical interviews They are brilliant and incredible engineers. I got positive feedback after two weeks. - host matching process For some reason, sometimes they tend not to match you with suitable hosts, which can take weeks between interviews (after you did not match with one). This spanned over 2.5 months and had 4 host matching sessions.
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Question 1
Coding: - Binary search in a string - A searchable catalogue class using a hashmap Other: - What is your experience? - Why did you study Computer Science? - What are your interests? (trick question during host matching interviews: share only what interests you and your potential host. Oversharing might give the host a bad impression.