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Google Software Engineer Behavioral Questions

50+ questions from real Google Software Engineer Behavioral rounds, reported by candidates who interviewed there.

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What does the Google Behavioral round test?

The Google behavioral round focuses on past experience, leadership, and teamwork. Software Engineer candidates should prepare STAR-format responses covering conflict resolution, technical decision-making, and examples of impact at scale.

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Google Software Engineer Behavioral Questions

Hi everyone, I wanted to share my recent experience interviewing with Google and the valuable lessons I learned, even though I didn’t get the job. Last week, I had my onsite interviews, and I just hea

Bullet points since we all have ADHD: * Money was nice but it's all just way too fucking stressful. I work to live, not live to work. * I worked at Amazon (1.5 years), Meta (2 years) and Google (1 yea

Got the Google Rejection

Dynamic Programming 2024

Unfortunately, didn't make it through. No doubt in my mind that I did well on the behavioral and I know that I reached optimal solutions and answered all follow-ups for 3 of 4 technicals. I feel like

Google SWE4 Technical Screening and Behavioral Interview Experience

Arrays,Graph,Sorting,Union Find,Behavioral 2026

ScreeningRound1: Coding Given a sorted array arr of size N, and an integer diff, construct an undirected graph where each node represents an index. Connect nodes i and j if |arr[i] - arr[j]| <= dif

I got my first interview at Google, I'm overthinking stuff

Interview Prep,Bit Manipulation,Behavioral 2026

I got off a screening call with a recruiter today and will soon start the interviews for software engineer III (\~L4). The recruiter told me there would be 4 interviews with 3 coding and 1 behavioral.

Google Interview Experience: Third Round for 2026 Hiring

Sliding Window,Two Pointers,Behavioral,Googleyness 2025

During my third round Google interview for the 2026 hiring cycle, I was presented with a Data Structures and Algorithms problem involving a row of $x$ and $y$ bottles. The task required splitting the

**Application Mode** Applied directly via the Google Careers portal without a referral. **Round 1 (45 min — DSA)** This session focused on a graph-based algorithmic problem. The task required deriving

1st Round: Elimination Round (Indian Interviewer) Problem 1: Given a 2D grid with obstacles, find a path from a source to a destination. Problem 2: A dynamic programming problem involving segment-based operations...

Google L3 Interview | Full Question

Dynamic Programming 2025

I had my first onsite interview today. The Interviewer just explained the question verbally and didn\'t paste it into editor. The question was roughly the following: Imagine you are a playing...

Behavioural, Round1, Round3 - Hire Round2 - LNH L4/US

Hi everyone, I have 1 onsite and a behavioral round lined up within a few days for L3 role at Google. What should I prepare in behavioral round? I have never faced a behavioral round before. The previ

Hello, Could someone share questions/expereinces for Googlyness interview ? How many questions are typically asked ? i believe its a 45 min interview. How much time appx should we take for...

TLDR; I performed well in 2 coding interviews, ok in 1 coding and very well on googleyness interview. Do you think I have a chance? I recently completed my Google onsite...

I recently appeared for Googlyness round and my interviewer was not very helpful, he was not giving any reaction on my answers, So I don\'t know how it went really...

Problem: Imagine you are standing at an incoming conveyor belt of items that need to be packaged into boxes of exactly three items that all fit together (for a later definition...

Hi, I have appeared for Google\'s L4 position in Bangalore, India and have appeared 1 coding technical elimination round, 3 coding rounds and 1 Behavioural round. My recruiter has told...

Question: Given a list of cakes, where each cake is represented by (x,y) coordinates (topleft corner of cake) and size of cake. These cakes are kept on rectangular table, also cake...

I just wrapped up my Google L3 onsite interviews, and it’s been a bit of a rollercoaster. Originally, all 4 interviews were supposed to happen on Monday, October 14, but 2 got rescheduled for Thursday

I completed all my interviews for a US swe campus early career role on 10/10/2024. My interviews went pretty well but there’s one I’m a bit on the fence about. After my interviews I sent a quick note

Can anyone please suggest how to prepare for Googleyness round?

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