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Google L4 Software Engineer Interview Experience (US) – Phone Screen + Onsite | Team Matching

I recently completed the Google L4 interview process.Phone ScreenRound 1 - Coding Round: Variation of Kadanes Algorithm Verdict: Strong HireRound 2 - Googliness Verdict: Strong HireOnsite Round 1 A graph-connectivity problem involving relationships t

I am currently going through the long and intensive process for the Google L3 Software Engineer Role in the US and would like to share my experience so far. The process followed the two-round interview format. For L3 SWE, R1 consisted of one technica

Hey everyone, sharing my Google L3 interview loop details. While I can't share exact questions due to NDA, but still a bit:Interview Breakdown: Phone Screen: Medium-level array/string tracking problem. It involved managing frequencies or states effic

The coding question in this round was a 2D clustering problem, and I thought it was the hardest one.Given a set of 2D points and a radius r, two points are considered connected if the distance between them is less than or equal to r. The connectivity

Hey everyone, I recently went through the Behavioral / HR round at Google for a Backend Engineer position and wanted to share my experience. Hopefully this helps someone preparing for the same.BackgroundI applied through the official Google careers p

The overall process started with submitting the resume, followed by receiving the OA, and then moving to the next step, which included submitting additional materials and scheduling interviews. In terms of timeline, the application was submitted on 1

Applied via referral.Phone Screen:You are given the periodic table and a word. Need to return the number of ways we can form that word using elements from the periodic table:ex. Physics can be made in the following ways: P - H - Y - Si - C - S, P - H

Sharing my Google L3 SWE interview journey for the Bangalore location. Reading experiences on LeetCode helped me a lot during the process, so hopefully this helps someone else.Background: B.Tech IIT (1.8 YOE)TimelineOctober A recruiter reached out re

Timeline: day 1 recruiter reached out day 10 call with recruiter day 30 dsa phone screen - Medium graph. Follow up - Very hard graph. I dont think they expected me to solve it, probably wanted to see how I approach hard problems or something. day 31

Hi all,I recently interviewed for Google's L4 position in Bangalore. It was the standard 2+2 interview pattern. (Tech + Googlyness online and eliminatory, followed by 2 technical on-site rounds back to back).Sharing the interview experience, and need

Dates of Interview: April'25Phone Screening Round: I was asked 2 problems: first question: we had an array A of size n and having positive value, we will be starting from 0 index we want to reach last index. At each step either we will be going to i+

Hi Everyone,I recently completed my Google L4 interview loop. The LeetCode community helped me a lot during my preparation, so I wanted to share my experience in hopes that it helps others as well.There were 4 interview rounds in total. Initially, on

Q1: Pair Counting (LCM Condition)Given a range A-B count how many pairs (x,y) exist such that: x and y are in the range LCM(x,y)>x+y Pick any two numbers from the range, check if their LCM is greater than their sum, and count such pairs.Q2: Tree Path

Recently cleared my Google interviews (got the positive feedback 2 days back 🎉).Current situation: Serving notice period in my current company Already have an Amazon SDE-2 offer Joining Amazon in ~8 days But honestly, Google is my first preference an

Hi community,I recently completed 4 interview rounds with [Google] — 2 online rounds followed by 2 onsite rounds. I’m still waiting for the final result, so I wanted to share my experience and get your thoughts on my chances.Round 1The questions were

Google L4 InterviewLocation : Bengaluru Role : L4Round 1 :Standard Topo Sort Question very similar to the below problems.Question 1 : https://leetcode.com/problems/course-schedule/description/ Question 2 : https://leetcode.com/problems/course-schedul

Hi All I gave my last onsite coding interviews. I have given 3 coding rounds and 1 googlyness round . I gave it on 9 April . In last week I reached to recruiter for closure on interview process. Followed after 2 days ( honestly was desperate for resu

Aug 2025 - Recruiter reached out and completed application Sep 2025 - GHA completed, scheduling first round of interviews Oct 2025 - Completed first round and proceed to next round of interviews Nov 2025 - Final Interviews completed, recruiter convey

Hello all,I compiled a list of Google interview questions from discuss section and recent interview experiences. Hope it helps!!Also was checking some recent 6 months /company tagged lists on Codolio company kit while preparing and saw many of these

Hi! Just want to share my Google Phone Screen experience with anybody in the process, since I've had immense help from Leetcode discuss section. I had 2 rounds.Round 1 (45 minutes): Googlyness This was behavorial. Some of the questions I was asked we

I recently had the opportunity to interview with Google, and I wanted to share my experience.Round 1: DSA (Graphs)The round focused on a graph-based problem (easy–medium level).Problem Summary: Given a weighted graph and a node, remove that node alon

Recently practiced a Google-style Online Assessment for 2026 hiring preparation, and the experience was both challenging and exciting.Pattern I noticed: 2 coding questions Strong focus on problem-solving ability Edge cases matter more than syntax Opt

🚀 Google ML Engineer (L4/L5) Interview Experience, Hire? 🤞Total Rounds: 4 (2 Virtual + 2 Onsite)I recently went through the Google ML loop and wanted to share a realistic breakdown — including mistakes, recoveries, and where things could go either wa

Hi everyone — excited to give back to the community by sharing my Google interview experience. Here’s how the journey unfolded.Background B.Tech (CSE) from a Tier-1 IIT ~2.5 years of experience (as of Dec 2025)Initial OutreachDec 5, 2025 A recruiter

Google Hiring Manager Round (Gemini Applications Team)Recently, I gave the Hiring Manager round for SWE III (ML) at Google for the Gemini Applications team. I have ~4.5 years of experience as a Data Scientist in a mid-size company. The interview last

Hi everyone,I have a question about Google interviews and how they are structured across attempts.Last year, I went through the full process and passed all technical rounds, but was not selected in the end. During my interviews, I mostly got problems

I will only provide one question I had because I haven't seen it in the Leetcode discussion when I was prepping a couple of months ago. other ones I have seen in the Leetcode discussion.The question I was asked is to detect squares, even when they're

Role: L5 Senior Frontend Engineer Location: Bangalore (Onsite – trip sponsored) Verdict: Rejected (Leaning No Hire)Screening Rounds (2 Rounds)Round 1: Googliness / BehavioralThis was a hiring manager-style round focused on past experience and behavio

Hi Leetcoders,I recently had a phone screen interview at Google (based in Warsaw). It consisted of 45 mins of coding round + 45 mins behavioral (Googliness) round, all in one day.The behavioral round went smoothly and I got a positive feedback from i

I am starting with my interviews for Google L5, had one few days back last week. It was supposed to be a DSA round, Interviewer asked me a pretty simple coding question, which is a standard leetcode easy on arrays. I was a bit shocked that why was it

The Ultimate Questions List appeared on multiple platformsArrays, Strings & Two Pointers Find Longest Duplicated Substring: Find the longest contiguous sequence of characters that appears more than once in a string. (Difficulty: Level 4) Minimum Co

Long post, read the short overview if busy.Recently went through the L4 loop for Google. I have 2.5 YOE. Google has been a dream company for me as is for anyone who is interested in programming. Really wanted to make it but due to clashes with events

I recently completed my L3 loop for Google. I may sound cliche but working in Google was my dream when I started leetcode 6 months ago so you can imagine how I felt when I received the call from the recruiter at the start of January that I was select

Phone Interview 1You are given an array of strings:You are also provided with an API:This API internally contains a constant string P and returns true if P is a prefix of s. Example:Your task is to rearrange the array so that all valid strings appear

The process consisted of two rounds Round 1: 1 Coding interview + 1 Googliness Round 2: 2 coding interviews.Round 1Coding InterviewGot asked this question :- https://leetcode.com/problems/longest-duplicate-substring/description/ Was able to solve it

ScreeningRound1: CodingGiven a sorted array arr of size N, and an integer diff, construct an undirected graph where each node represents an index. Connect nodes i and j if |arr[i] - arr[j]| <= diff. You are given a list of queries [u, v]. Return a li

Hello! Recently(2 weeks ago) I had an opportunity to participate in interviews at Google - online technical and GooglinessA couple of days ago I got a call with the recruiter and I was notified that I didn't make it... Was told that I almost passed t

Phone Interview 1You are given an array of strings:You are also provided with an API:This API internally contains a constant string P and returns true if P is a prefix of s. Example:Your task is to rearrange the array so that all valid strings appear

Hi everyone, I’m hoping someone familiar with the Google hiring pipeline can help me understand where I currently stand.Location: India Exp: +1.5 YOETimeline: Last March 2025: Completed onsite interviews for an L3 role at Google Mid April 2025: Recru

Hi everyone,I’m currently preparing for Google and looking for a serious interview buddy to practice consistently.About me: • 2.8 years of experience in C# Backend at a FinTech • LeetCode Knight, used to do competitive programming (Expert at Codeforc

Hi everyone! My google L4 android domain interview is next week (This one is online). I'm very worried as honestly there is not much content and they can ask anything they want to! What should I focus on? I have 3.5YOE+ and well worsed with how conce

Every week people grind the “Top / Most Tagged Google Questions” list on LeetCode.But the list keeps changing constantly.So I’m genuinely curious:How useful are these questions actually in real Google interviews?📊 Poll:Very useful — I’ve seen the sam

Hi Everyone, I wanted to share an extremely disappointing experience that happened in my Google L5 onsites. In 2025 beginning I interviewed for SWE, ML role at Google. My initial rounds were two domain based ML system design rounds where I got H and

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Google Interview Experience – SDE 2 (Zurich)Applied via: Google CareersHR Screening (15 mins)Basic introduction, background discussion, motivation for Google and Zurich.Technical Screening (45 mins – Eliminatory)Topic: Two Pointers Result: Very GoodV