Google Software Engineer - Internship interview questions
based on 823 ratings - Updated Jul 6, 2026
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Software Engineer - Internship applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer - Internship roles take an average of 105 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 44 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Google as a Software Engineer - Internship according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 50%
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I received a coding round. It was having 2 simple problems to code and solve. After that, they asked me to take a survey about my technical skills. Did not hear back from the recruiter till a month. And got rejected.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2019
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I received a coding challenge and after completing it and waiting for a response, I got scheduled for the technical phone interview. For my phone interview I had two of them back to back. They were both with Google Software Engineers and they both asked me one technical question with a couple of follow-up questions and edits I had to make to my answer.
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Question 1
Given a list of ranges, return them as a list
a = [[1,5], [7,8], [20]].
=> [1,2,3,4,5,7,8,20]
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Google in Dec 2017
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I applied through referral and got reached out 1-2 weeks later to setup a first interview. First interview was technical phone interview with 2 questions interviewer tried to help me a lot. It was good experience since it was my first algorithmic tech interview ever.