Google·Software Engineer

Google Software Engineer interview experience

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TaipeiPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first rounds were back-to-back and very much set the tone for how the rest would feel.

I started with self-introductions, and then it moved quickly into LeetCode-style questions along with behavioral content and Q&A. One of the sessions was conducted in Mandarin, which added an extra layer of focus just to make sure my communication stayed clear.

The technical parts weren’t always straightforward LeetCode problems, though. I had an OA experience with two problems, and later a virtual component that mixed coding with behavioral questions. The coding question I got wasn’t on LeetCode and felt genuinely difficult to reason about from scratch; the interviewer didn’t give hints and

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