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      Software Engineer, New Grad Interview

      May 14, 2018
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Mountain View, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Apr 2018

      Interview

      I was contacted over linkedin by a recruiter, which was followed by a technical phone screen. The phone interview consisted of 2 coding questions to be programmed on a Google Doc. If you clear that, you would be scheduled for an onsite. The phone interview was leetcode easy/medium (I would say more towards the easier side). I expected something like Dynamic Programming, but they were Strings/Heap based questions and pretty doable. The first one was easy, the second one was a medium level difficult. The onsite interview had 4 rounds, all technical and focused on different areas such as Graphs, Sorting, Recursion and a general Array based. I would say all questions were on Leetcode medium level. Some were tricky, in the sense, it required you to remember some algorithm from CLRS and apply it directly. All questions were new, which I appreciate. Google really cares if you can write a working code in that short time, or at-least that is the idea that I got from the interviews. I messed up during interviews and did not write clear code. Also, be well prepared for space-time complexity discussion. Before going onsite, be sure to participate in Google's coaching as it will help you understand what Google expects onsite. Overall the experience was good. The accommodation, flight and travel was well arranged by Google.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Signed the NDA
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      Apr 2, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
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      Got an OA first. And an interview call. Question was backtracking leetcode. i would say a medium-hard question . I was able to solve it but still got rejected. I was hoping for second on site round. idk why . But i think my interviewer is not in interested in my code like she is not even correcting me.

      Software Engineer New Grad Interview

      Feb 17, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Seattle, WA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Seattle, WA)

      Interview

      I applied online with no referral. First was an online coding challenge then 4 virtual onsite 45 minute interviews. I had a call with my recruiter to learn about the details of the interview process. They were 3 technical interviews and 1 behavioral.

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