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Software Engineer Interview Experience

August 26, 2026
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Process

The interview has two phases, and each of the phases has two interviews. In the first phase, there are one coding interview and one behavior interview. Both of them are virtual onsite. In the second phase, there are two onsite coding interviews. You need to do the interview in a Google office. The coding questions are medium LeetCode questions. It is not difficult to solve the problem, but you need to clearly explain your thought process, tradeoffs, and try to implement a bug-free solution.

Questions

Medium leetcode questions, including stack, graph, and tree.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 5,754 interview experiences for the Google Software Engineer role.

Success Rate

11%
Pass Rate

Google's interview process for their Software Engineer roles is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive62%
Neutral27%
Negative11%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's Software Engineer interview process.

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