Google·Software Engineer·Recruiter / HR Screen
- Why do you want to work at Google?
“Classic opener.”
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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
“Classic opener.”
“I had a story ready but it was kind of messy in the telling.”
“I spent the first minute just kind of staring at it mentally.”
“This is the one I over-prepared for and still fumbled.”
“My first reaction was to laugh, which was probably not ideal.”
“This came from the Googleyness and Leadership round but it wasn't the usual behavioral stuff.”
“Still waiting on this one myself.”
“I froze for a second because I kept second-guessing whether to estimate the helicopter interior volume or account for rotor housing and seats.”
“I knew this problem but still fumbled the explanation for the heap approach.”
“The Mars framing threw me for a bit.”