Google DeepMind Research Engineer interview experience

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London, EnglandPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process hit the hardest part first: two technical rounds delivered over a virtual interview setup.

Both rounds focused on data structures and algorithms, and the questions were described as standard LeetCode at a medium-to-hard level.

What stood out was how unhelpful the interviewers were when I got stuck. The follow-ups were also genuinely difficult, and one interviewer in particular was hard to understand, which made it harder than it should’ve been to even follow what was being asked.

I didn’t end up moving forward, and it felt less like I ran into an insurmountable technical gap and more like the experience itself created extra friction during the evaluation.

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