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 months. I interviewed at Google (Atlanta, GA) in Dec 2018
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The process was overall positive. The software engineers I spoke to were very supportive and honest. I enjoyed speaking with them and I could tell they wanted me to do well.
Back to back coding interviews, 45 minutes each. One was a easy level coding question, reading records of users with messages, counting words in messages and outputting the K users with maximum words.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Jan 2019
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The interview was a technical phone interview in Python. They gave me a simple programming problem, then added layers of complexity once I solved a given stage. Overall the problems were not difficult and could be solved with rudimentary knowledge of , however, as an undergrad the problems given to me could have been easier than average.