Google·Software Engineer

Google Software Engineer interview experience

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PolandPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process didn’t feel very smooth on the timeline.

I kept seeing long gaps, and I was eventually ghosted for months after being qualified, only to be rejected after an extended wait. Even though that outcome hurt, I still found the early application experience relatively decent and it gave me hope even when the later response went quiet.

Separately, another run of the loop felt complicated and drawn out, with a lot of steps and long stretches where I heard nothing. I didn’t get constructive feedback afterward, which made the whole experience harder to close out mentally. I had two algorithm discussions with a technical reviewer and then a

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