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Google Software Engineer interview experience

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Sunnyvale, CAPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I ended up with two back-to-back interviews, each lasting about 45 minutes.

Both were technical and both revolved around DSA. The first one felt comparatively easier to me, focusing on arrays, and the second covered class design and tradeoffs. During both, I had to talk through time complexity, and the first interviewer also pushed me a lot on edge cases, making sure I wasn’t just coding for the “happy path.”

The rhythm was intense because they were right next to each other, but I felt like I had room to think through my approach since the questions matched well with what I was comfortable explaining. By the end, I walked away feeling the interviewers were

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