Google·Software Engineer

Google Software Engineer interview experience

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

I had an average-to-difficult technical track that started with an OA and quickly moved into back-to-back live coding rounds.

Online assessment (OA) — simple coding questions.
Technical interviews (back-to-back) — two live coding screens; one was practical filesystem-style, and another was a difficult graph/problem.
Project/team matching — moved into project matching with a brief additional interview with a co-host of the team. Outcome: Rejected; the difficult graph/practical coding rounds were the main challenge.

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