Google·Software Engineer

Google Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

HaifaPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a home exam: two questions in 90 minutes.

After that, I joined two interviews on Google Meet, with two separate 45-minute sessions. The questions were in English and they were fairly specific.

The first interview question was a matrix DFS problem, and the second one focused on a hashmap involving a random function. Doing it remotely was manageable, but the exam format plus two follow-up interviews made it feel like the pressure was continuous rather than separated into distinct days.

By the end, I felt like I had to rely on understanding the underlying technique rather than just memorizing how a specific problem gets solved,

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