Google (Senior) Software Engineer interview questions
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(Senior) Software Engineer 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 65.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for (Senior) Software Engineer roles take an average of 60 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 42 days.
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Asked data structure problems, system design. And coding questions with an medium difficulty. Asked a lot in details, like how to design a system, how to improve it. Coding was relatively easy.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Google (Bengaluru) in Feb 2025
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Mail chain - face to face phone screening round in which they asked a hard level DSA questions. DSA - Scenaria based, priority quesue was to be used with creating classes
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DSA - Scenaria based, priority quesue was to be used with creating classes
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Google (Varsovia, Mazovia)
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Professional process, good support from the company internal recruiter. The interviewer was friendly, clearly described the problem that I was tasked to solve and answered all my questions. Constructive feedback was provided shortly afterwards by the recruiter.