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Software Engineer Interview Experience

February 9, 2026
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied online and got to a recruiter screening to schedule a 45 min coding interview for data structures and algorithms. This was done in a basic text editor with no syntax highlighting or running the code for debugging.

Questions

Variation of Number of Lines to write string

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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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