Google·Software Engineer

Google Software Engineer interview experience

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

My interview journey felt pretty structured end to end, like each step was designed to narrow things down quickly.

I started with an online assessment with two easy coding questions. After that, I moved into a couple more rounds where I had a behavioral interview session paired with an additional easy-level coding question.

The overall difficulty ramped up by the time I reached the last round. Even though earlier parts were described as easier, the final coding questions ended up clearly more challenging than what I’d done in the assessment and the earlier interview coding step. I also had a day-to-day feeling of being evaluated across both communication and technical problem solving.

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