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Google Software Engineer interview experience

Posted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first step was a phone screen that had two parts: behavioral and a single technical question.

The behavioral round was about 45 minutes, and then the second round focused on a topological sorting problem.

The technical part centered on reasoning through dependencies with topo sort, while the behavioral segment covered the usual workplace story types. What stuck with me was how straightforward the structure felt: two consecutive rounds, one devoted to how I think and communicate in a work context, and the other devoted to one clear graph/ordering concept.

I left the screen feeling like I knew exactly what I was being evaluated on—both communication and core problem-solving. I didn’t

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