How long does it take to get hired as a Software Engineer at Google?

Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 38 days.

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based on 6.8K ratings - Updated Jul 7, 2026

Average interview difficulty

Very positive interview experience

How others got an interview

44%
Applied online
Applied online
25%
Recruiter
Recruiter
17%
Employee Referral
Employee Referral
10%
Campus Recruiting
Campus Recruiting
2%
Other
Other
1%
In Person
In Person
0%
Staffing Agency
Staffing Agency

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6,834 interviews

Software Engineer Interview

Mar 20, 2015

Anonymous employee

Accepted offer

Positive experience

Easy interview

Application

I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Google

Interview

phone interview recruter found my resume in Hackthon resume bank and sent me an email.interviewer is nice but we had a bad signal and its really hard to hear clearly.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

given a string write a function to return the index of the first elememt which is non-alphabat ordered

5 Answers

Software Developer Interview

Mar 19, 2015

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Jan 2015

Interview

I had three phone interviews-- 45 minutes each in a day. The interviewers were very nice and the questions were not that difficult, but I was very nervous that I could not answer them well.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

standard algorithm questions

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Software Engineer Interview

Mar 17, 2015

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Difficult interview

Application

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google

Interview

I found a recruiter on linkedin, reached out, and was given one technical phone call interview, then flown out to their headquarters, and had four one person, 45 minute interviews.

Interview questions [2]

Question 1

Implement C's memcpy()

1 Answer

Question 2

Given a binary search tree where there may contain duplicates, but all other logic of the BST is intact, determine the most frequently occurring element.

1 Answer

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