Google·Software Engineer

Google Software Engineer interview experience

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

My process stretched across a few phases after an initial contact, and by the time I got into the main evaluation, I ended up doing multiple rounds where performance mattered immediately.

I remember getting an OA-style step earlier in the funnel and then moving into a structured sequence of coding interviews. The problems were medium to hard and felt like classic algorithmic prompts, with the added pressure that you need to get everything right on the full range of test inputs.

I made it far enough that I was in the second set of interviews out of three, which felt promising even though it ended quickly after I ran into a snag with test inputs during a medium problem. Another time, I experienced the full intensity more directly: I went through several rounds of DSA and a

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