Software Engineer(Internship) applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 80% positive. To compare, the company-average is 71.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer(Internship) roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 43 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Google as a Software Engineer(Internship) according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 33%
Skills test: 17%
Other: 17%
Presentation: 17%
Phone interview: 17%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Google in Jan 2017
Interview
Applied online. Was contacted by the recruiter soon afterward to set phone screen. Two 45 minute interviews in the first phone-screen. Contacted me again after a week for another telephone interview. Experienced call quality issues during the interviews, but the interviews went well in general.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Had one algorithm/coding question to solve per interview.
there is no online assessment, very simple phone call, then two technicals. technicals are not difficult by any means. then you get put into team matching, after a couple months
I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Sydney) in Jun 2026
Interview
Resume screening and then two 2 rounds of technical interviews, on an elimination basis. Interview done on google docs with no IDE, dsa leetcode style question. May be asked follow up questions on how to optimise your solution or on how you would code up a solution to a similar problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
DSA tree question, medium-hard leetcode difficulty.
Home exam, 2 questions in 90 mins
Then they did 2 interviews-45 mins each
It was on google meet
The interviews are in English, the first question was matrix dfs and the second one was hashmap with random function