Google Principal Software Engineer interview questions
based on 7 ratings - Updated Mar 28, 2025
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Principal Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3.7 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 Principal Software Engineer roles take an average of 28 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 Principal Software Engineer according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
One on one interview: 50%
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Interview process was great. Very professional. The recruiter was very forthcoming with any help that I needed along the way. The process consisted of a few interviews, with varying levels of difficulty.
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Sunnyvale, CA) in Mar 2019
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Hair splitting ... because they can. They have a strong market position and therefore very deep recruiting pipeline. I doubt I failed at anything, but the feedback I got was very sketchy.