Google Software Engineer Internship interview questions
based on 819 ratings - 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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Difficult questions, had 2 rounds. First round was OA, second round was with hiring manager. Got rejected after hiring manager round. Everyone was nice and friendly. Was referred in, from what I have heard you should have a referral as it is difficult with a cold application.
quick call with a recruiter followed up with phone screen with a manager. No response for following couple days and then got another interview with another manager level person. Then, I got an email from the recruiter saying I would get an offer very soon.
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Describe a project you started from scratch and successfully completed
The interviewers are nice, and the problems are not that hard. Had an additional round of interviews, but everything went well at the end. The team match phase is much longer than I thought.