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Software Engineer, PhD Interview Experience

June 1, 2025
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Process

Smooth and nice. Interviewers were listening and engaging.

The recruiter was helpful and informative.

First round: One phone interview.

Second round: Three technical interviews and one behavioral interview, scheduled over two days, all remote.

Questions

Got one question on mono-stack, one on binary search, one on binary tree traversal, and one on dynamic programming.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 4 interview experiences for the Google Software Engineer, PhD role in United States.

Success Rate

50%
Pass Rate

Google's interview process for their Software Engineer, PhD roles in the United States is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive75%
Neutral25%
Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's Software Engineer, PhD interview process in United States.

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