Software Engineer - New Grad applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 61% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer - New Grad roles take an average of 44 days to get hired, when considering 204 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 38 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Google as a Software Engineer - New Grad according to 204 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 37%
One on one interview: 23%
Presentation: 15%
Skills test: 10%
Personality test: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Group panel interview: 2%
Drug test: 1%
Other: 1%
Background check: 1%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google in Dec 2025
Interview
First round consisted of a 45 min behavioral interview followed by a 45 min technical assessment. Typical questions for behavioral round - read up on what google calls googlyness. Technical question was 1 easy/medium style leetcode.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
"tell me about a time where you dealt with ambiguity."
Good experience. Made it to the 2nd out of the third set of interviews. Got a medium problem, coded it well but had trouble with a test input he gave. Didn't move forward.
1 coding assessment. If you pass, you get to the final round which consists of 4 rounds in one day. 3 technical and one behavioral. The algorithms I had was BFS, Min heaps, and backtracking(parentheses)
Got an OA first.
And an interview call.
Question was backtracking leetcode.
i would say a medium-hard question . I was able to solve it but still got rejected. I was hoping for second on site round. idk why .
But i think my interviewer is not in interested in my code like she is not even correcting me.