Google Software Engineer Intern interview questions
Updated May 22, 2026
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Software Engineer Intern 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.
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I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google in Aug 2019
Interview
The interview process and the communication with my recruiter was good.
I explained my background before solving coding problems.
After I got two phone screen interviews, HR decided that I should get an additional phone screen interview.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google (San Francisco, CA) in Dec 2020
Interview
The interview process is composed of Coding challenge plus two back-to-back forty five-minute technical interviews. The questions are focused on data structures and algorithms. I would say the difficulties of the questions is Leetcode Medium.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The technical questions are focused on topological sorting and design questions
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google
Interview
There was an online coding assessment with two questions and about 2 hours to complete, then two google docs phone coding interviews. It took about 7 weeks to hear back and after accepting the offer, I went through project matching and after about an additional week everything was finalized
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
sorting an array of elements and combining by ids
e.g
[1:2], [1:3], [3,5],[2,4]