Google DeepMind Research Engineer interview experience

Got offer

Hard

Positive

London, EnglandPosted Nov 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview journey started with an HR screening, then moved to a two-hour quiz with research engineers, followed by a coding interview with a software engineer.

After that, I had research interviews with team leads, then more onsite-style interviews where a larger group met me—research scientists, research engineers, and an HR representative.

Overall it was a very long process and it felt hard in a way that required real commitment. It wasn’t just that the questions were high quality; it was that I had to keep showing up and performing consistently across many different people and formats. Even so, the recruiter and everyone I interacted with were described as kind, which made the intensity more manageable.

I didn’t end up with an offer. Still, I

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