Google Cloud Software Engineer interview experience

I ended up with five rounds total: three focused on coding, one on system design, and one behavioral round. Most of the rounds went well, and I could tell they were looking for both correctness and the ability to finish.

In practice, I struggled most on a coding round that I got close to but couldn’t complete fully. That was the part that weighed on me afterward—time pressure and small mistakes that compounded until I couldn’t finish strong. Earlier interviews in the same general format also reinforced that the best moments were when I could solve without getting derailed, because once