Customer Engineer 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 49% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Customer Engineer roles take an average of 43 days to get hired, when considering 37 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 Customer Engineer according to 37 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 24%
Presentation: 16%
One on one interview: 16%
Group panel interview: 10%
Background check: 9%
Skills test: 6%
Other: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Drug test: 4%
Personality test: 3%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Austin, TX) in Sep 2018
Interview
The process is long and convoluted and really depends a lot upon the mood of the 1 person that is interviewing you. They utilized Google Hangouts for the entire process, which was plagued with technical glitches. The first couple interviews went well. However, I could tell within 30 seconds of my last interview that I was not going to get good feedback, just by reading the body language of the interviewer. Which, probably had little to do with me, but likely was due to his mood and that he didn't feel like interviewing someone 3 timezones away on a Friday afternoon. After that interview I was actually hoping they weren't interested in continuing. Because , with the exception of one person, everyone I spoke with had a seemingly condescending sneer on their face. Sometimes you just get a feeling that you wouldn't want to work somewhere and I had that with Google. No matter how cool they make it seem, at some point, I realized it would be like working on a reality show with a boatload of self absorbed narcissists.
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The person asked a lot of questions about Hadoop: what is it, how does it work, what is map reduce. Asked me to describe how to build an end to end application to run a business similar to *hulu* with cloud components.
I applied online. I interviewed at Google in Aug 2025
Interview
The interview process went quite smoothly with 4 interviews (one of them being a presentation). It was a mix of technical and behavioral questions. I passed the interviews and got a positive feedback, but the role was put on hold for months and then cancelled so overall I was disappointed. However, once you pass the interviews the feedback remains available for 12 months for similar roles at the same level, if one opens up in the same location.
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Question 1
Typical behavioral questions + general cloud knowledge. The technical questions were very broad
Recruiter Screen followed by technical and behavioral interviews. The questions were simple. However, I got a feedback that I need to repeat RRK round only after 6months for similar roles.
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Question 1
Generic Architecture and Customer Management Questions.
Le processus de recrutement chez Google commence par une candidature en ligne. Ensuite, les candidats passent plusieurs entretiens, souvent avec des questions techniques et comportementales, avant d'être évalués sur leur adéquation à la culture de l'entreprise. L'accent est mis sur la collaboration et l'innovation.
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Question 1
Racontez moi une fois où vous étiez en désaccord avec la direction ?