Google Software Engineer(Internship) interview questions
based on 820 ratings - Updated Jun 18, 2026
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Software Engineer(Internship) 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 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer(Internship) roles take an average of 47 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 42 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Google as a Software Engineer(Internship) according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 50%
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
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The interview was conducted well. It was conducted on phone and a common google doc where the engineer could see my solutions. Two coding questions were asked, and he was nice enough to ask me to explain my thought process and guide me through the difficult parts.
2 interviews one after the other, the interviewer of the first interview was 30 minutes late so we had to reschedule it.
The rescheduled interview was delayed too, so I left the process
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
BFS on a maze, maze generation with a feasible solution
I applied online. I interviewed at Google in Nov 2018
Interview
Submitted the application. After a week, got a call from hiring coordinator, received coding challenge and then after that 2 phone interviews. Phone interview one one with google engineer, in both rounds.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Find the second highest number from the given number in the array
Puzzle question , on rain drop in 1 meter yard, 10 mm size of water droplets, how many rain droplets fell in 1 minute