Cyber Security Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 4.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Cyber Security Engineer roles take an average of 60 days to get hired, when considering 2 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 Cyber Security Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Group panel interview: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
Skills test: 25%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google (Zürich) in Dec 2021
Interview
The process starts with a Phone Screening, and if passed, is followed by 5 interviews (4 technical + 1 focus on behavioural kind of questions).
Normally the 5 interviews are blocked together, but I got them split into 3 days, as I was interviewed by ppl from different time zone.
The process was very well described by the leading recruiter who was very helpful and supportive.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Coding: general parsing log files and looking for patterns, some basic ciphers, SQL queries
- Security based questions: drilling into TLS, DNS covered channels, high level questions about building security program for a small size company
Very basic oral questions, asked about my background along with technical question such as networking protocols, which made the interview harder. Interview is over zoom and if advanced to other rounds in person.
I applied through other source. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Google (Dublin, Dublin) in Mar 2025
Interview
The process was long, after 4 interviews they tell me they where not opening the position, I had 3 technical rounds where they asked me of all the doma is if cyber security including reverse engineering and forensics for a privacy analyst role.