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      Software Engineer New Grad Interview

      6 Jun 2011
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Mountain View, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in May 2011

      Interview

      I was contacted via LinkedIn with the opportunity to apply to Google. A current employee who went to the same university found my resume and sent it in. The interview process consisted of two, 1 hour long, back to back phone interviews. I was sent a google doc for both of them and was asked to write code into the document while the interviewer watched my thought process and coding ability on the other end. The first interviewer asked me to code a very abstract algorithm, I think her exercise was more to see what my though process was than my coding abilities. The second interviewer asked me to write out a few simple algorithms in code, then describe the complexity of the code. He then asked me how I could try to break my code and to implement the fixes for those edge cases. Finally I was asked if there was any way to rewrite the code more efficiently and what the complexity of that new version of the code would be. It seemed to me like the first interview did not go very well but that the second one was much better, however I was sent an email about 2 weeks later saying that they did not have a proper fit for my qualifications. Both interviewers were nice but did not express much emotion and were not very helpful when trying to talk a solution out loud.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      I was asked not to explicitly talk about the interview questions, but they involved live coding into a google doc and discussing the big O complexity of the algorithms used.
      Answer question
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      Software Engineer New Grad Interview

      26 May 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Google (New York, NY)

      Interview

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      Software Engineer New Grad Interview

      2 Apr 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Google

      Interview

      Got an OA first. And an interview call. Question was backtracking leetcode. i would say a medium-hard question . I was able to solve it but still got rejected. I was hoping for second on site round. idk why . But i think my interviewer is not in interested in my code like she is not even correcting me.

      Software Engineer New Grad Interview

      17 Feb 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Seattle, WA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Seattle, WA)

      Interview

      I applied online with no referral. First was an online coding challenge then 4 virtual onsite 45 minute interviews. I had a call with my recruiter to learn about the details of the interview process. They were 3 technical interviews and 1 behavioral.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

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