I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Nov 2016
Interview
the recruiter was very nice, there were two phone interviews both consisting of minimizing space and maximizing efficiency, know your data structures and how to implement library functions, very technical and not really much behavioral questions
Other Software Engineer(Internship) Interview Reviews for Google
there is no online assessment, very simple phone call, then two technicals. technicals are not difficult by any means. then you get put into team matching, after a couple months
I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Sydney) in Jun 2026
Interview
Resume screening and then two 2 rounds of technical interviews, on an elimination basis. Interview done on google docs with no IDE, dsa leetcode style question. May be asked follow up questions on how to optimise your solution or on how you would code up a solution to a similar problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
DSA tree question, medium-hard leetcode difficulty.
Home exam, 2 questions in 90 mins
Then they did 2 interviews-45 mins each
It was on google meet
The interviews are in English, the first question was matrix dfs and the second one was hashmap with random function