too many rounds, too many stupid questions. they ask a lot of stupid questions that have no relevancy to the role. the interviewers were all very racist, rude, and overly assuming. the interview is suppose to be about whether you are appropriate for the role, not ask silly puzzles. the interviews were all fairly pointless. it was like the interviewers had all grown in arrogance, like they had some sort of an unhealthy clout at working at google, very pretentious. they asked me about how I would get out of a manhole? how does that have any bearing on working at google? does google have manholes that I need to be concerned about, does this relate to the job? will I be stuck in a manhole while working there? is there a health and safety issue at google where manholes are left open? going through the interview process showed me the level of frustration I will have every day working there with opportunistic and egotistical people that differentiate people on race, sex, and gender stereotypes.
I applied in-person. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Google in Mar 2025
Interview
first chatted to the hiring manager. then 1 leet code round, 1 ML coding round, and 1 research interview round. this is only for the first round of the general interview. Did not proceed to team-specific interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
for research interview talked about a few past projects and interviewer asked follow-up questions
4 interviews: 3 technical and 1 culture. They were all remote and by various Google employees spread all over North America. Interview process got stop short before my case got seen due to layoffs
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Non-disclosure agreement so I cannot say. But hard leetcode questions
Research Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 20% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Research Engineer roles take an average of 17 days to get hired, when considering 6 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 Research Engineer according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 60%
Skills test: 20%
Presentation: 20%
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