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Software Engineer Interview Experience

July 28, 2026
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Process

I applied online. The process took 3 weeks.

There were 4 rounds in total: 2 coding rounds, 1 behavioral, and 1 system. It was one coding problem per round; the problems were not too difficult but had a lot of follow-up questions. Behavioral is just standard questions. The system design round was also very standard.

Questions

Come up with a data structure to store movie ratings, where the rating of a new movie is calculated as an average of other movies in the same category. Include a method to add new movies and update its rating.

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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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