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.
Common stages of the interview process at Google as a Software Engineer Internship according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 100%
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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Google
Interview
Two back to back 45 min phone interviews. Talked a little about resume and projects. The first interview asked two question, one is binary search, another is matrix operation. Second interview asked one question about hashmap and union find
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Google
Interview
Two back-to-back technical phone interviews. There should be 15 mins between these two interviews. But the first interviewer is a little bit later such that the second phone call is got before the first one is finished. The interviewers are nice and the question will be typed on the google doc. Example will be provided by the interviewer. The questions are easy and interviewer will remind you if you are in the wrong direction. But my application is too later to find a team during team match.
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Question 1
1. Determine the balanced binary tree.
2. Pattern match
3. Longest consecutive ones
I applied online. I interviewed at Google in Nov 2016
Interview
Lots of forms and emails, personal recruiter, 2 45 minute code interviews then in person interviews. Fairly standard but there are a lot of questions and details to fill out even if you are just hiring. Code interviews went so quick as well.