Softwre Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 74.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at Google as a Softwre Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Background check: 33%
Phone interview: 33%
Personality test: 33%
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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Google (Bengaluru) in Aug 2020
Interview
The first round on basic of programing . In which two program to be solved in 1 hrs , The first program contain the substring problem and other one number problem, you can't switch the window once the test started!!
It was a good interview experience. The interviewer asked many follow-up questions, which showed they were interested in understanding my thought process. Questions were fair and relevant to the role.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Google (Raleigh, NC) in Nov 2024
Interview
The interview is for a s/w engineer early career role, I had 4 interviews in 1 day with 3 of them being coding interviws 45 min each and the last one was a behavioral interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding rounds involve only 1 question each round with easy, medium, hard level questions.
I was asked a technical coding question over the phone and i had to solve it with an engineer. i think i answered the question correctly but still failed the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
the question was a modified dfs traversal of a graph