Software Development Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 71% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 63 days to get hired, when considering 7 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 45 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Google as a Software Development Engineer according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
Presentation: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
Skills test: 17%
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A google interview consists of 1 Phone screening(15 mins), 1 Technical screening(45 mins), 4/5 onsite rounds(45 mins) mine was held 4(3 technical and 1 behavioral)
Make a time schedule(Time is restricted in most interviews from 45 mins to 1 hour, at Google really strict)
My time was: 10 mins(intro and understand the question), 5-10 mins (discuss approach), 10 mins (write down code) 5 mins (dry run the code with example), Other time complexity and bug fixing discussion
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a shuffle for a music player with k iteration of cooldown. Given a list of songs.
The interviewer was very nice, one interviewer didn't show up so I rescheduled it. When I didn't come up with the best solution, the interveiwer was very patient and give me hint as many as possible
1 screening round + 3 onsite round
All rounds were focused on DSA that included topics like strings, linked list, heap and dynamic programming. Screening round had 2 questions on qualifying which I was eligible for onsite and Googliness rounds. The whole process took nearlying 2.5 months
I applied in-person. I interviewed at Google (Bengaluru) in Apr 2026
Interview
Very competitive process which requires hard work and good preparation. DSA questions and real life problems divided into 4-5 rounds of interview including HR, Technical, Hiring manager rounds. Onsite interviews are going on