I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google in Nov 2019
Interview
I was contacted by a Google recruiter. After a brief behavioral phone screen in which she asked about my background and interests, she invited me to apply to the Software Engineering Internship once the job was posted, and provided me with resources on how to prepare beforehand.
A time to take the OA was quickly set up, and it being my first real interview, I pushed back the date further than necessary and over prepared. The questions were very easy (2 questions in 90 minutes) and seemed like a way to weed out applicants with no coding knowledge rather than a real test of coding aptitude.
Soon after I was asked to scheduled 2 phone interviews back to back. The first one went really well, but the second one was significantly more difficult and I was not able to solve the problem in time. Luckily, I was asked to give a third and final phone interview roughly a week after the first two. I scheduled this one for 2 weeks from when I was contacted. 2 weeks later I received a call from my recruiter saying that unfortunately they would not be moving on with my application and to apply again next year.
Throughout, the process the interviewers and recruiters were very helpful and friendly, and recruiters never took longer than 2 business days to respond to any email.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of lists as input, return every unique combination that can be made by taking one element from each list.
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