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PhD SWE Interview Experience - United States

October 27, 2025
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Two back-to-back 45-minute coding interviews. Each round is a hard-level LeetCode-style question. The first one is a DFS graph search, and the second is using a Trie tree. They give you 5 minutes at the end to ask about Google.

Questions

What's the biggest challenge you've met in your recent project?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Google PhD SWE role in United States.

Success Rate

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Pass Rate

Google's interview process for their PhD SWE roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

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Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's PhD SWE interview process in United States.