Google Site Reliability Engineer interview questions
based on 135 ratings - Updated Apr 11, 2026
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Site Reliability Engineer 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 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 71.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Site Reliability Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 43 days.
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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Google
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First OA, two questions, one about water flower, one about domino. Then phone interview, about matrix and DFS. Then HR will tell you the next process. Then onsite, 5 rounds, 4 coding, one BQ. Coding part included things like iterator, interval, binary search, recursion......All interviewers are very friendly and nice.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Zurich) in Feb 2017
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Initial phone call, technical phone call, on 4 site meetings. The initial call was just to check if I'm interested in job. Technical call was to check if I know the basics , onsite meetings checked deeply technical knowledge
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Oct 2016
Interview
It started with unmatched professionalism, enthusiasm, and equitable accommodation insofar as I was allowed to choose the programming language for technical interview questions. Three venues followed - two via phone/desktop terminal sessions and an on-site invitation for multiple face to face dialogs and challenges.
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Question 1
Write a program in C, that implements a shell's facilities for (1) initiating a background process, and (2) command line pipes.