Google·Software Engineer·Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership
- Tell me about a time you built a dashboard.
“I had an example ready but rambled way too much about the tool itself instead of the business problem it solved.”
FAANG / Big Tech
Most of these Google write-ups come from Software Engineers (1,167), then Product Managers (686) and Data Scientists (125). The most reported rounds are the product sense round (667), the technical phone screen (660), the behavioral / leadership round (252) and the onsite coding round (214).
2146 interview notes · updated Oct 2026
“I had an example ready but rambled way too much about the tool itself instead of the business problem it solved.”
“The base problem wasn't bad, got through it and did a dry run without too much fumbling.”
“This was basically six questions stapled together and I did not pace myself well.”
“This wrecked me a little.”
“This one took me a few minutes to even understand what the constraints were actually demanding.”
“The scale of it tripped me up a bit.”
“This is a pricing and competitive strategy question disguised as a simple 'what factors' prompt.”
“Described the brute force approach verbally with complexity analysis but didn't code it up, then tried jumping straight to bottom-up DP and completely fell apart.”
“The self-join to generate pairs tripped me up at first because I kept second-guessing the less-than condition for ensuring smaller id comes first.”
“Knew this one.”