Graduate Student applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Graduate Student roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 3 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 Graduate Student according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 40%
Background check: 20%
Skills test: 20%
Presentation: 20%
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The questions were thoughtful and gave me a good opportunity to showcase my knowledge. I appreciated how professional and friendly the interviewer was - it made the conversation feel more natural.
Well thought of process and I felt that they were daily quick to get back to me. Appreciated the way the questions were asked and challenged me to some quizzes
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Google (Bengaluru) in Nov 2025
Interview
A online assessment consisting of two coding questions. Each were of medium difficulty and there was a time limit of 1 hour to finish both the questions. You can choose your preferred language to code.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a binary string, determine the number of substrings that have more 1s than 0s