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SWE New Grad Interview Experience

January 19, 2026

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The process consisted of two coding parts and a behavioral round with several questions. It included LeetCode and OOP problems, where you needed to provide different test cases and dry run them. The behavioral round involved chatting and discussing your past experiences.

Questions

Tell me an obstacle that you faced in your past experiences.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 43 interview experiences for the Google SWE New Grad role.

Success Rate

7%

Pass Rate

Google's interview process for their SWE New Grad roles is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive58%

Neutral30%

Negative12%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's SWE New Grad interview process.

Google Work Experiences

Overall good, chill

SWE New Grad • Former Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

September 12, 2025

Pros: Good work-life balance. Good people. Good food. Good office.

Cons: becomes boring depending on the team/project.

Overall good, chill

SWE New Grad • Former Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

September 12, 2025

Pros: Good work-life balance. Good people. Good food. Good office.

Cons: becomes boring depending on the team/project.

Comfortable

SWE New Grad • Former Employee

Mountain View, CA

January 23, 2026

Pros: It's a very comfortable place, depending on the team. Generally, it has a better WLB than most other "elite" industry—finance, consulting, law, etc.

Cons: Honestly, it's a very comfortable place. So, if you're craving something more than comfort or that's the antithesis of comfort, or if it requires you to get outside of your comfort zone, you might want to look somewhere else. That said, if what you're optimizing for is a comfortable, high-paying, high-prestige job, I'm not sure that it gets any better than this.

SWE New Grad • Former Employee

Mountain View, CA

January 23, 2026

Pros: It's a very comfortable place, depending on the team. Generally, it has a better WLB than most other "elite" industry—finance, consulting, law, etc.

Cons: Honestly, it's a very comfortable place. So, if you're craving something more than comfort or that's the antithesis of comfort, or if it requires you to get outside of your comfort zone, you might want to look somewhere else. That said, if what you're optimizing for is a comfortable, high-paying, high-prestige job, I'm not sure that it gets any better than this.

NIce

SWE New Grad • Current Employee

January 1, 2026

Pros: It is a cool and fun place to work.

Cons: Fluctuations in stock price continuously.

SWE New Grad • Current Employee

January 1, 2026

Pros: It is a cool and fun place to work.

Cons: Fluctuations in stock price continuously.

Overall good, chill

SWE New Grad • Former Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

September 12, 2025

Pros: Good work-life balance. Good people. Good food. Good office.

Cons: becomes boring depending on the team/project.

4.0
Overall good, chill
SWE New Grad • Former Employee
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
September 12, 2025
Pros: Good work-life balance. Good people. Good food. Good office.
Cons: becomes boring depending on the team/project.

Comfortable

SWE New Grad • Former Employee

Mountain View, CA

January 23, 2026

Pros: It's a very comfortable place, depending on the team. Generally, it has a better WLB than most other "elite" industry—finance, consulting, law, etc.

Cons: Honestly, it's a very comfortable place. So, if you're craving something more than comfort or that's the antithesis of comfort, or if it requires you to get outside of your comfort zone, you might want to look somewhere else. That said, if what you're optimizing for is a comfortable, high-paying, high-prestige job, I'm not sure that it gets any better than this.

5.0
Comfortable
SWE New Grad • Former Employee
Mountain View, CA
January 23, 2026
Pros: It's a very comfortable place, depending on the team. Generally, it has a better WLB than most other "elite" industry—finance, consulting, law, etc.
Cons: Honestly, it's a very comfortable place. So, if you're craving something more than comfort or that's the antithesis of comfort, or if it requires you to get outside of your comfort zone, you might want to look somewhere else. That said, if what you're optimizing for is a comfortable, high-paying, high-prestige job, I'm not sure that it gets any better than this.

NIce

SWE New Grad • Current Employee

January 1, 2026

Pros: It is a cool and fun place to work.

Cons: Fluctuations in stock price continuously.

4.0
NIce
SWE New Grad • Current Employee
Bengaluru
January 1, 2026
Pros: It is a cool and fun place to work.
Cons: Fluctuations in stock price continuously.

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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