Company simulation

Google interview process

New-grad software engineer · 4 rounds, in the order Google's process runs them. Two or more prep sources agree on these rounds.

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Written — type your answers

Voice — speak with the interviewer (10 min, needs a microphone)

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The rounds

Online test · 90 min · 2 questions
Google — Online Assessment
Two problems, ninety minutes.
Google — Online Assessment: pattern, syllabus and a free mock
Coding · Written
Technical Phone Screen
Forty-five to sixty minutes of algorithmic coding.
Coding · Written
Onsite Coding Interview
Data structures and algorithms, forty-five minutes; the onsite holds three or four of these.
Behavioural · Written
Googleyness & Leadership
Behavioural questions on collaboration, ambiguity and culture fit.

Where this comes from

Sources agree

levels.fyi and Hello Interview agree: a phone screen, then three or four coding interviews and one Googleyness and Leadership interview, with no system design at new-grad level; team-matching calls with hiring managers follow the hiring committee and are not practised here. Both are US-facing sources; Indian campus loops may differ. Google's own How We Hire page could not be read for this.

Practise for Google

How a run works

Rounds open in order: each one once the round before it is sat. No cut-off is applied — no company publishes one — so the scores sit side by side at the end.
The online test is the company's placement test pattern, proctored like any sitting. A sitting started before the round opened is not counted.
Each interview round is a mock interview with the AI interviewer, briefed on the company and the round. It counts toward your weekly interview allowance like any other, and its answers feed your skill profile and readiness.
Technical and coding rounds are written, with the editor. The HR and managerial rounds are held the way you chose when you started: written, or spoken for 10 minutes.

Google Interview Process: 4 Rounds Explained

The Google interview process, round by round: Google — Online Assessment → Technical Phone Screen → Onsite Coding Interview → Googleyness & Leadership.

Company: Google

Role: new-grad software engineer

Rounds: 4

How firm: Sources agree

The Google interview process for a new-grad software engineer has 4 rounds, in this order: Google — Online Assessment, Technical Phone Screen, Onsite Coding Interview, Googleyness & Leadership.

The rounds

Google — Online Assessment
Online test. Two problems, ninety minutes.
Google — Online Assessment: pattern, syllabus and a free mock
Technical Phone Screen
Coding. Forty-five to sixty minutes of algorithmic coding.
Onsite Coding Interview
Coding. Data structures and algorithms, forty-five minutes; the onsite holds three or four of these.
Googleyness & Leadership
Behavioural. Behavioural questions on collaboration, ambiguity and culture fit.

Where this comes from

Sources agree. Two or more prep sources agree on these rounds.

Signed in, you can sit the whole process as one simulation: the online test, then each interview with the AI interviewer, in order. Not affiliated with Google.