Google Software Engineer Intern interview questions
Updated May 22, 2026
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I applied online. I interviewed at Google in Feb 2014
Interview
Submitted resume online and got connected by recruiter. Then scheduled two 45-mins technical phone interviews with Google engineers. It was not hard but I gave them wrong answer about time complexity. But the engineers are very nice and friendly. After that I got the email about making a third phone interview. I think that might because I did just on average in the first two rounds and they want to give me another chance. But later I got several other offer deadlines approaching and thus declined further interview process with Google.
Google's host matching round takes quite a time. But great company though.
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Question 1
Not so hard. They like to ask complexity analysis for each question.
I applied from the google job website and got an email from recruiter 2 weeks later. Phone interview was scheduled for an internship position. There was 2 45 minutes technical phone interviews.
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Question 1
After given clearly definition of UTF-8 format. ex: 1-byte: 0b0xxxxxxx 2- bytes:....
Asked to write a function to validate whether the input is valid UTF-8.
Input will be string/byte array, output should be yes/no.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google
Interview
I applied online and within about a week I was offered an interview. The interview consisted of a google hangout with two different google employees that each interviewed me for 45 minutes. The guys couldn't get there audio working so they both just called me instead.
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Question 1
The dude basically asked me "what weird things have you found in using C?" Odd question...