I applied online. I interviewed at Google DeepMind (London, England) in Jan 2026
Interview
The first round of the interview was a deep dive into my resume by a researcher from the team of interest. The whole process was around 45 minutes.
The second round of the interview was with the student researcher manager, who introduced the project topic and potential outcomes and asked some light, open-ended questions about my background. The meeting lasted about 30 min.
Neither round involved coding or system design questions. They were pure research-focused.
I applied online. I interviewed at Google DeepMind (Cambridge, MA) in May 2025
Interview
They asked me to explain my research projects in detail, then had many follow-up questions regarding my past projects which took 20-30 minutes total. Then they asked technical questions about transformers, reinforcement learning, and LLM reasoning.
I applied online. I interviewed at Google DeepMind (Los Angeles, CA) in Feb 2024
Interview
One technical interview about fundamental ML and another team matching interview with a specific team. No coding interview. But I contacted the team before applying so it may be different for others.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Linear regression, regularization, optimization, basic deep learning.
