Google·Software Engineer·Onsite - Multi Round
May 2026
Went through Google's early career software engineering process in the US and it was harder than expected. Four rounds total, two behavioral and two technical, and the technical side had some genuinely tricky moments. Ended up rejected, but leaving notes here for anyone prepping.
- Given a code environment with a filesystem and a readme, identify and fix any issues in a data processing workflow.
- Solve a constrained directed graph problem, given a vague input data structure.
“This one threw me completely.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Google, Onsite - Multi Round round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.
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