Google·Software Engineer

Google Software Engineer interview experience

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Mountain View, CAPosted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview loop for a new grad software engineer role was pretty straightforward: it had four rounds total.

There were three DSA-focused technical rounds and one behavioral round. The coding questions were the main event, and they leaned into topics like heaps, stacks, and dynamic programming, with the expectation that I would talk through my approach, optimization, and time complexity as I built the solution.

The behavioral round matched the general tone I expected—questions about teamwork, past projects, and how I communicated. It also felt less like anything unexpected was going to happen and more like the interviewers were looking for structured, reasonable answers. In general, the technical

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