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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jan 20, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Mountain View, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Jan 2026

      Interview

      Took about 6 weeks total to get through everything. Started with an OA -2 coding questions in 90 mins. lots of array stuff and prefix sums. Be careful because they don't show you all the test cases, so you have to really think about edge cases yourself. There was a behavioral survey too, nothing crazy just don't pick neutral for every single question imo. Had a 45 min phone screen after that- standard graph ques but want you to explain your thoughts. Onsite was 5 rounds in one day -> 4 coding and 1 for Googlyness/behavioral. The coding was a mix of DP, trees, and had a geometry line sweep ques that was a bit of a headache haha. 45 minutes goes by way faster than you think i guess. For prep, I mostly just stuck to Google tagged LC mediums/hards and did the blind 75 - these are a must i’d say, helps understand patterns. I also did a mock on Prepfully with an actual Google engineer which was very eye opening - helped me get used to explaining the depth and tradeoffs before actually writing any code. I’d recommend: just keep talking through your reasoning even if your first idea is bad; everyone wants to see how you solve problems, not just the final code. Also, the campus is cool but a total maze, get there early so you aren't stressing about finding the right building. I spent odd 20 mins figuring things out lol

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      given a list of coordinates for buildings on a 2D plane, find the total area covered by their shadows if the sun is at a specific angle
      Answer question
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      Software Engineer Interview

      May 4, 2014
      Anonymous employee
      Auburndale, FL
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Google (Auburndale, FL) in Apr 2014

      Interview

      Direct onsite because I interviewed in the past and did well that time. From the time I sent my resume to interview day: 2 weeks. From interview day to offer over the phone: 2 weeks. The syllabus for the interviews is very clear and simple: 1) Dynamic Programming 2) Super recursion (permutation, combination,...2^n, m^n, n!...etc. type of program. (NP hard, NP programs) 3) Probability related programs 4) Graphs: BFS/DFS are usually enough 5) All basic data structures from Arrays/Lists to circular queues, BSTs, Hash tables, B-Trees, and Red-Black trees, and all basic algorithms like sorting, binary search, median,... 6) Problem solving ability at a level similar to TopCoder Division 1, 250 points. If you can consistently solve these, then you are almost sure to get in with 2-weeks brush up. 7) Review all old interview questions in Glassdoor to get a feel. If you can solve 95% of them at home (including coding them up quickly and testing them out in a debugger + editor setup), you are in good shape. 8) Practice coding--write often and write a lot. If you can think of a solution, you should be able to code it easily...without much thought. 9) Very good to have for design interview: distributed systems knowledge and practical experience. 10) Good understanding of basic discrete math, computer architecture, basic math. 11) Coursera courses and assignments give a lot of what you need to know. 12) Note that all the above except the first 2 are useful in "real life" programming too! Interview 1: Graph related question and super recursion Interview 2: Design discussion involving a distributed system with writes/reads going on at different sites in parallel. Interview 3: Array and Tree related questions Interview 4: Designing a simple class to do something. Not hard, but not easy either. You need to know basic data structures very well to consider different designs and trade-offs. Interview 5: Dynamic programming, Computer architecture and low level perf. enhancement question which requires knowledge of Trees, binary search, etc. At the end, I wasn't tired and rather enjoyed the discussions. I think the key was long term preparation and time spent doing topcoder for several years (on and off as I enjoy solving the problems). Conclusion: "It's not the best who win the race; it's the best prepared who win it."
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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jun 3, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Google

      Interview

      Etapa de RH para filtragem de curriculo e fit inicial, e Screening Técnico com código em leetcode focado em algoritmos, onde o código era feito em um bloco de notas, sem uso de IDEs.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Você conhece sobre Big O notation?
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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jun 3, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Mountain View, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA)

      Interview

      Round 1 consists of coding and behavioural interviews. In behavioural, it was basic questions; it can be found online, so make sure you have all the stories ready. For DSA, it was a pretty much easy question related to Intervals or Heaps, don't want to reveal the questions directly!!

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      DSA question based on Intervals, Heaps
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