Google Software Engineer interview experience

Once scheduling lined up, I went straight into technical interviews, and the questions leaned heavily into algorithmic problem-solving and specific implementation details.

One technical round asked about a very specific library from the language I chose, and I blanked on the exact syntax mid-interview, which threw me off more than the coding logic itself. In another session, I was asked to think about representing an HTML tree—how I’d store characters down the branches and then how I’d search through it given a string. I also had to work through DSA-style problems where you reason about why