Taro Logo

Software Engineer - Early Career Interview Experience

December 10, 2025
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months.

The whole process is a bit long due to the arrangement of interview scheduling. OA was easy to pass. Round 1 included a BQ interview and a technical interview. My two were back to back. The BQ interviewer who was a NG too and felt very unprofessional, just reading the questions list and no feedback and communications at all. The coding question was easy, followed by a medium follow-up. I solved both and kept communicating with the interviewer all the time. I thought I behaved very well and deserved entering Round 2 at least. But received rejection after 1 week and the recruiter refused to give feedbacks. Quite disappointed!

Questions

Standard BQ questions. Coding was about tree traversal and loop detection.

Was this helpful?

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 18 interview experiences for the Google Software Engineer - Early Career role.

Success Rate

6%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive72%
Neutral22%
Negative6%

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

Google Work Experiences