I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Sunnyvale, CA) in Jun 2018
Interview
Starts with a coding quiz/sample and progresses to two phone interviews where you code on a Google doc with two different Google employees.
My first interviewer was 15 minutes late (which almost made me miss my second interview). His accent was thick and he kept changing what he wanted me to code. Second interview went a little better but neither of my interviewers were helpful like I had read on previous Glassdoor reviews. Instead of helping when I got stuck, my second interviewer laughed when I'd ask for clarification.
Also my original recruiter never followed up with me. I had to email her asking for an update and then she called minutes later to tell me super bluntly that they were not moving forward with me. I was expecting more professionalism from Google.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Your questions could vary vastly depending on your interviewer. In my experience, they didn't ask me anything they had suggested I study from the PowerPoint guide they send internship candidates. I'd say just know your data structures well and practice problems on Leetcode. Even if you don't move forward with Google, your study will land you a different intership!
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