SWE Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 2.5 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 72% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for SWE Intern roles take an average of 60 days to get hired, when considering 2 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 SWE Intern according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 50%
Skills test: 50%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Google (New York, NY)
Interview
Leetcode style questions related to dictionary. Interviewer had me code it on a google doc, no IDE given. Was not too challenging, but 1nd one was a little tougher to do than the first one for sure.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google (New York, NY) in Oct 2025
Interview
Two rounds of coding.
https://leetcode.com/problems/russian-doll-envelopes/description/
https://leetcode.com/problems/next-greater-numerically-balanced-number/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2025-10-24
First the recruiter reached out with google work style assessment, then followed up with asking for my transcripts. Eventually two online remote coding rounds were scheduled where we are asked the standard leetcode questions. We were expected to write the optimized code and explain the approach along with time and space complexity.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
https://leetcode.com/problems/russian-doll-envelopes/description/
Standard leetcode problem solved using LIS on heights after sorting by widths.
Went well, nice and friendly they explained the problems well, I had 2 rounds and the second round was in my opinion more difficult but that may just be because of the interviewer