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Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience

January 28, 2026
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied online. The process took 4 weeks.

In the first interview, they asked a LC medium top-k elements, and I got that. Then the second interview asked a LC hard longest repeating substring. I got a baseline solution using hash maps, but the interviewer was insistent on getting the optimal solution. The hints given were not informative.

Questions

Top-k elements and longest repeating substring

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 950 interview experiences for the Google Software Engineer (Internship) role.

Success Rate

16%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive69%
Neutral24%
Negative6%

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

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