Google DeepMind Research Engineer interview experience

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London, EnglandPosted Oct 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a screening where we covered my background and what I expected from the role, including computer science and coding—data structures, comparisons between Python and C++, and coding tests.

The screening also touched math topics like linear algebra plus probability and Bayes-style reasoning.

After that, the interview questions moved quickly and went deep in their wording. The pace and detail level surprised me: the topics were broad, but the interviewer pushed toward precise formulations and faster back-and-forth answers, so I couldn’t just give a hand-wavy overview. Everyone seemed to be aiming for real understanding rather than memorized definitions.

I didn’t end up progressing to later stages, though the process itself felt like it was testing my ability to operate across

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