Google Cloud Software Engineer interview experience

After the recruiter loop, I had three phone technical rounds. The questions weren’t framed super casually; they were clearly meant to test how I reason through problems and code under pressure, and the pace felt like I was constantly moving to the next checkpoint.

Once the technical part was done, it didn’t instantly turn into a team interview. There was a stage where headcount had to get approved, and then I went into team matching. That whole sequence—from the first interviews to matching and then the final steps—took about six months start to finish, which surprised me. I ultimately