Google Software Engineer Internship interview questions
based on 820 ratings - Updated Jun 18, 2026
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Software Engineer Internship applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 80% positive. To compare, the company-average is 71.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer Internship roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 43 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Google as a Software Engineer Internship according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 33%
Skills test: 17%
Presentation: 17%
Other: 17%
Phone interview: 17%
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The interview was conducted well. It was conducted on phone and a common google doc where the engineer could see my solutions. Two coding questions were asked, and he was nice enough to ask me to explain my thought process and guide me through the difficult parts.
2 interviews one after the other, the interviewer of the first interview was 30 minutes late so we had to reschedule it.
The rescheduled interview was delayed too, so I left the process
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
BFS on a maze, maze generation with a feasible solution
I applied online. I interviewed at Google in Nov 2018
Interview
Submitted the application. After a week, got a call from hiring coordinator, received coding challenge and then after that 2 phone interviews. Phone interview one one with google engineer, in both rounds.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Find the second highest number from the given number in the array
Puzzle question , on rain drop in 1 meter yard, 10 mm size of water droplets, how many rain droplets fell in 1 minute