SWE Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 65.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for SWE Intern roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 42 days.
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I applied online. I interviewed at Google (New York, NY)
Interview
Interviewer was nice and he helped me walk through the problem during tech round. The whole thing was smooth. I'm very grateful for the experience. My advice: just ask them if u dont know, but ask in a good way.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google (Pilani) in Jul 2025
Interview
The initial round was an online assessment on Hackerearth where we had to solve 2 questions in 1 hr. both questions were leetcode hard. the round was designed to test your thinking and implementation skills.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
the first question involved maths + graph DSU and other involved the concept of 3D dynamic programming with space optimization.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google (Kharagpur, West Bengal) in Jul 2025
Interview
2 technical rounds were there both of them had one medium to hard level leetcode dsa question i solved both of them no HR round or CV grilling was done. They didn't even asked for core CS things
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In the first round they asked a qs of topological ordering and asked me the name of algorithm which i applied to solve that question the answer was kann's algorithm
In the second round, They asked me a question about string handling which finally boiled down to a tree traversal kind of question this was medium level question mainly focused on testing implementation skills