Software Engineer(Internship) applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 69% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer(Internship) roles take an average of 47 days to get hired, when considering 631 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 38 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Google as a Software Engineer(Internship) according to 631 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 42%
Presentation: 19%
One on one interview: 16%
Skills test: 10%
Drug test: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Other: 2%
Background check: 2%
Personality test: 2%
Group panel interview: 1%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Hong Kong) in May 2019
Interview
2 individual online tests with 2 hours duration and the timeslot is fixed by the employer. the tests are totally independent. one is specific to the case and the other is the short path problem which is a classic. the choice of language is flexible.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
analyze the power of purchase of a customer going to a restaurant based on their budget.
there is no online assessment, very simple phone call, then two technicals. technicals are not difficult by any means. then you get put into team matching, after a couple months
I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Sydney) in Jun 2026
Interview
Resume screening and then two 2 rounds of technical interviews, on an elimination basis. Interview done on google docs with no IDE, dsa leetcode style question. May be asked follow up questions on how to optimise your solution or on how you would code up a solution to a similar problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
DSA tree question, medium-hard leetcode difficulty.
Home exam, 2 questions in 90 mins
Then they did 2 interviews-45 mins each
It was on google meet
The interviews are in English, the first question was matrix dfs and the second one was hashmap with random function