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.
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Overall good Started with a recruiter call, then an online assessment, and the finally two Leetcode medium questions. Afterwards, another recruiter call where I got the final offer. Slow process, and required a lot of persistent questions to hear updates.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Londres, Inglaterra) in Nov 2024
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It was two technical interviews. One coding problem for each where you develop a solution to a given problem and then try to improve that solution (runtime). After they asked me if I had any questions for them.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Sep 2025
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Two back-to-back 45-minute interviews with one technical question for each, the difficulty is similar to one lc medium and one lc hard. The first one is divide and conquer to do it in subproblems. The second one is a backtracking matrix question similar to a Sudoku question. No behavioral question.
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Question 1
The first one is divide and conquer to do it in subproblems. The second one is a backtracking matrix question similar to a Sudoku question.