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Google Software Engineer interview questions

based on 6.8K ratings - Updated Jun 12, 2026

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10%
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2%
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Software Developer Interview

Mar 20, 2012

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

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Application

I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google in Jan 2012

Interview

Phone interview consisted of the interviewer talking about the position, followed by two technical questions (#1 write a SQL query based on what they wanted to return and #2 sort integers from two different arrays of different sizes), followed by questions from me.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Write code in any language to sort the integers in the following arrays: A = [3,7,8] B=[5,9]

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Software Engineer Interview

Mar 20, 2012

Anonymous employee

Accepted offer

Neutral experience

Difficult interview

Application

I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Cambridge, MA) in Jun 2011

Interview

The other reviews do this justice. It was very technical, very fast paced.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Design a system or algorithm to catalog all of the worlds books?

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Software Engineer Interview

Mar 18, 2012

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Average interview

Application

I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Palo Alto, CA) in Feb 2012

Interview

Had two phone interviews. The questions were not hard, both can be done by simply array manipulation. I would suggest interviewees to review data structure and algorithms.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Find the balance point in an array. (The index where the sum of the elements to the left it is the same as the sum of the elements to the right of it.)

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