Google

Software Engineer III Interview Experience

January 23, 2026

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Start with OA, and then the first technical and behavioral interviews each for 45 mins, and then two rounds of the onsite technical interview where they flew me out to the Google campus.

Questions

The first technical was about graphs, which you might already hear that they like asking about graphs, but then the other two technical onsite ones were linked lists, and another more open-ended one where the data structure wasn't too obvious, and the optimization was overkill.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 55 interview experiences for the Google Software Engineer III role.

Success Rate

20%

Pass Rate

Google's interview process for their Software Engineer III roles is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive58%

Neutral22%

Negative20%

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

Google Work Experiences

Decent experience, then got laid off

Software Engineer III • Former Employee

Kirkland, Washington, United States

Pros: Great benefits and perks, a very positive culture, friendly people, and good internal tools.

Cons: Not a lot of collaboration; work is very individual. I went through multiple reorgs in 2 years at Google Cloud. A design-first culture is not very adaptable to changing requirements and learning more over the lifetime of a project. I got laid off when the company had previously prided itself on not doing layoffs.

Decent experience, then got laid off

Software Engineer III • Former Employee

Kirkland, Washington, United States

Pros: Great benefits and perks, a very positive culture, friendly people, and good internal tools.

Cons: Not a lot of collaboration; work is very individual. I went through multiple reorgs in 2 years at Google Cloud. A design-first culture is not very adaptable to changing requirements and learning more over the lifetime of a project. I got laid off when the company had previously prided itself on not doing layoffs.

Projects can be interesting; promo is slow

Software Engineer III • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

August 27, 2024

Pros: Managers are generally humane and compassionate, and the culture is still good despite the layoffs.

Cons: Culture has shifted for the worse since the layoffs.

Projects can be interesting; promo is slow

Software Engineer III • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

August 27, 2024

Pros: Managers are generally humane and compassionate, and the culture is still good despite the layoffs.

Cons: Culture has shifted for the worse since the layoffs.

Great place to work!

Software Engineer III • Current Employee

Pros: Best benefits in the world. Fun-loving culture. Great people.

Cons: Everyone is really smart, so it can feel a little hard to compete. At the same time, performance expectations are lenient.

Great place to work!

Software Engineer III • Current Employee

Pros: Best benefits in the world. Fun-loving culture. Great people.

Cons: Everyone is really smart, so it can feel a little hard to compete. At the same time, performance expectations are lenient.

Decent experience, then got laid off

Software Engineer III • Former Employee

Kirkland, Washington, United States

Pros: Great benefits and perks, a very positive culture, friendly people, and good internal tools.

Cons: Not a lot of collaboration; work is very individual. I went through multiple reorgs in 2 years at Google Cloud. A design-first culture is not very adaptable to changing requirements and learning more over the lifetime of a project. I got laid off when the company had previously prided itself on not doing layoffs.

3.0
Decent experience, then got laid off
Software Engineer III • Former Employee
Kirkland, Washington, United States
April 10, 2023
Pros: Great benefits and perks, a very positive culture, friendly people, and good internal tools.
Cons: Not a lot of collaboration; work is very individual. I went through multiple reorgs in 2 years at Google Cloud. A design-first culture is not very adaptable to changing requirements and learning more over the lifetime of a project. I got laid off when the company had previously prided itself on not doing layoffs.

Projects can be interesting; promo is slow

Software Engineer III • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

August 27, 2024

Pros: Managers are generally humane and compassionate, and the culture is still good despite the layoffs.

Cons: Culture has shifted for the worse since the layoffs.

4.0
Projects can be interesting; promo is slow
Software Engineer III • Current Employee
Mountain View, California, United States
August 27, 2024
Pros: Managers are generally humane and compassionate, and the culture is still good despite the layoffs.
Cons: Culture has shifted for the worse since the layoffs.

Great place to work!

Software Engineer III • Current Employee

Pros: Best benefits in the world. Fun-loving culture. Great people.

Cons: Everyone is really smart, so it can feel a little hard to compete. At the same time, performance expectations are lenient.

5.0
Great place to work!
Software Engineer III • Current Employee
March 2, 2022
Pros: Best benefits in the world. Fun-loving culture. Great people.
Cons: Everyone is really smart, so it can feel a little hard to compete. At the same time, performance expectations are lenient.

Google Interview Questions

Two Sum

Find two numbers in a given array that add up to a specific target value, and return their indices. Essentially, you need to efficiently locate the pair that satisfies the sum requirement.

Palindrome Number

Determine whether an integer is a palindrome. That is, it reads the same forwards and backward.

Bit Manipulation

Add Two Numbers

You are given two linked lists, each representing a non-negative integer. Add the two numbers and return the sum as a linked list.

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