I applied through college or university. The process took 4+ months. I interviewed at Google
Interview
Several rounds of interviews (Four or five). Standard programming questions, not too hard.
Months of project selection hell. For each project we'd set up a meeting with a manager. Have a phone call, listen to them talk about their log processing pipeline whatever, talk about my relevant experience, 15-30 minutes total. Then a week later get another recruiter email for the next project. Ask about the previous project, "they selected someone else," repeat.
As expected from a Google interview, it consists of a phone interview and a technical interview. In my opinion, with the skill level Google is looking for, the interview is fair and accurately tests the ability of a candidate. I imagine the interview for full-time positions is harder, but as an intern, I felt that it was the right amount of difficulty and complexity.
there is no online assessment, very simple phone call, then two technicals. technicals are not difficult by any means. then you get put into team matching, after a couple months
I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Sydney) in Jun 2026
Interview
Resume screening and then two 2 rounds of technical interviews, on an elimination basis. Interview done on google docs with no IDE, dsa leetcode style question. May be asked follow up questions on how to optimise your solution or on how you would code up a solution to a similar problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
DSA tree question, medium-hard leetcode difficulty.