Summer Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 92% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Summer Intern roles take an average of 31 days to get hired, when considering 17 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 38 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Google as a Summer Intern according to 17 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 27%
One on one interview: 18%
Skills test: 18%
Group panel interview: 9%
Presentation: 9%
Background check: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Drug test: 5%
Personality test: 5%
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The interview lasted for about one month from the initital recruiter contact to the offer. There were four rounds of tactial and behavior interviews. I feel the process was pretty smooth and the interviewers were all very professional and friendly.
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Why Google? Why this role? What's your understanding to this role?
Got a 15 min screening interview round through Google Big Code. There were supposed to be 2 more rounds both Data Structures and Algorithm based. Some People who could not get to R2 got these interview calls.
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Question 1
Was asked only about dsa like how many hours do you practice dsa daily, how many questions solved, what would you rate yourself in dsa etc.
I applied online. I interviewed at Google (San Francisco, CA) in Dec 2025
Interview
was a smooth but technical process, a lot of emphasis on soft skills and creative thinking, assuming this was to observe how we fit in with the company with regards to our ability to connect dots
Multiple interview rounds initial rounds dont ask for anything besdies leetcode and are extremely scrutinized no room to be humble ruins chances ideally 300+ leetcode solved the interview questions themselves are easy enough