Google·Software Engineer

Google Software Engineer interview experience

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London, EnglandPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I kicked things off with a recruiter interaction and then got scheduled for a sequence of rounds that ultimately ran into real coordination problems.

The biggest disruption happened late in the loop: the scheduling kept changing, one interviewer simply didn’t show up, and another had to end the conversation halfway through because they suddenly weren’t feeling well. I had to keep re-booking to finish the later round, and it took multiple attempts before I could complete it.

After I finally made it through, my recruiter told me the feedback from my later interviews was strong, but the overall process wouldn’t move forward because the first interview feedback wasn’t considered solid. What made it hard to reconcile was how much effort the

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