Google Engineer Interview
Questions & Process
What 112 candidates said about the rounds, the
questions and how long the wait really is.
From 112 candidate reports · FREE TO READ
Questions candidates reported
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Engineering accounts for 10,860 of 112 reports, so company-wide questions may lean toward that function. Pick your role above for questions from your own loop.
“How do you figure out the time complexity of a recursive function?”
Read reports →“How does a UPS work?”
Read reports →“How would I code better?”
Read reports →“What is your name?”
Read reports →“What experience do you have?”
Read report →“Why y want to work here”
Read report →“Tell me about yourself.”
Read report →“Can you walk me through your background?”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
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The interview process
Described in candidates’ own words.
“difícil, entrevistador muy atento a lo que preguntaba, el proceso fue fluido y sin presión. Fue por Zoom hace unos años y yo estaba muy nervioso con qué me iban a preguntar”Candidate-reported process
“had 5 rounds, first, second and fourth being coding and rest two system design. I really enjoyed each round as the questions were very well designed, crisp and led to good discussions. One of the system design problems was very practical that has had many research papers published. Other was more about artificially increasing the scale to see how a given system would behave, and approaches to optimize performance.”Candidate-reported process
“Very long winded and not much feedback throughout. The process took a couple of weeks and I had to chase the recruiter for updates. I felt the aptitude tests were overkill.”Candidate-reported processMore reports lockedRead 300+ more interview experiences
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