I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Los Angeles, CA) in Aug 2020
Interview
Recruiter reached out after i had applied to the STEP program a year ago, and invited me to apply to the SWE internship for next summer. Extremely nice and kind people, they give you all the info you need and always get back to you. A TON of opportunities to get involved with the company
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Reddit users are pretty on point. The questions I got this year were basically the same topics that reddit users suggested I look over for the first round interview. One of them was string manipulation! So not incredibly hard since it was the first round but not a lot of time for 3 relatively intermediate questions
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