Google Software Developer Internship interview questions
based on 822 ratings - Updated Jun 26, 2026
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Software Developer 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 61.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer 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.
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Phone interview: 25%
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2 coding interviews via web
2 phone technical interviews
The first phone interview was very bad. The recruiter did not say much and did not have a very welcoming tone.
The second phone interview was good. The recruiter was nice and lifted my spirits a bit.
Questions were not too hard, not impossible. Note, after you finish the questions, they have more questions about your answer.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Nov 2017
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First I found a employee referral and then after a few weeks I got the interview invitation. I then went through two rounds of technical interviews and passed the interviews. Then my resume went into the team match pool and got selected by the engineer lead in my team right now.
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Question 1
Coding question about linked lists and dynamic programming
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Aug 2018
Interview
pretty fast correspondence and very professional; just a lot of forms to fill out as well but they processed everything pretty fast. phone interview was with 2 different interviewers, each gave me a coding question to work through