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 6 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Jan 2022
Interview
Less than a week after applying, I received an Online Assessment (OA) with a handful of questions. About 2 weeks after that, my recruiter reached out to schedule the back to back phone interviews.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Los Angeles, CA) in Jan 2022
Interview
Two tech interviews of the coding tests, testing the understanding of algorithms and data structure. Questions are new and I haven't seen them before. One is an array-like greedy problem and another is a clock setting problem.
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Give a brief introduction and 2 coding question for algorithms.
I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Google (Chicago, IL) in Jan 2022
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Two phone calls. each one gives you a question to solve. You have roughly 40 minutes for each question and the questions are mostly like the hard google tagged questions in the leetcode.