Google Software Engineer Intern interview questions
Updated May 22, 2026
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The process had two stages, interviews, followed by project assignment. The process was comfortable. After a prelude of non-technical personality type questions they moved onto the technical bit, focus was on programming languages and algorithms. That was the trend for both. I was unsuccessful at the interview stage
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Question 1
Find the average of values in an array accounting for integer overflow
I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Google
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After applying online, I was contacted with 1 business day of my application by a recruiter to explain the process and set up a date and time for the first interview. The initial email explained that the first interviews were back-to-back technical phone interviews that are approximately 45 minutes long, each. The interviewers had somewhat pronounced accents and were occasionally difficult to understand. The interviewers were patient as I worked through problems, but the technical questions started immediately after being greeted on the phone and opening the GoogleDoc that was provided for each interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a LinkedList struct and a function to remove duplicates from a linked list. Write a toString function that converts an int into a string. Write a method that determines whether the int provided is a power of 2.