Google·Software Engineer·Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership
Apr 2026
Behavioral round at Google for a software engineer role, just one question but it required a lot of digging into your own past. Not a bad experience, just more introspective than I expected.
- Describe a past decision you would make differently if you could. Walk through the original context, why you made the choice you did at the time, what you'd change, and what you took away from it.
“I had a story ready but it was too safe.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Google, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.
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