Google Interview Questions

Google Interview Questions

Practice 514 real Google interview questions for 2026. Covers Coding & Algorithms, Behavioral & Leadership, Analytics & Experimentation, Machine Learning, and System Design across Software Engineer, Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer, Product Manager, and Data Engineer roles — real questions from actual interviews with detailed solutions to accelerate interview preparation. This collection highlights the coding-first bar Google uses: expect heavy algorithmic work, role-related data and ML problems, a Googleyness/leadership round, and level-specific differences in what’s decisive. What’s distinctive: for Software Engineers you’ll see spatial and streaming algorithms, concurrency and async primitives, LLM-foundations and GPU-job scheduling, plus object-design problems like room assignment; Data Scientists are weighted toward causal experiments, funnel and product-metric diagnostics, bootstrap inference, and percentile/sampling algorithms; ML Engineers focus on transformer blocks, recommendation design and ranking cold-starts; PMs get Maps/Android and product-ideation tradeoffs plus throughput and revenue sizing. New-grad and intern tracks emphasize phone screens and virtual onsites; Google L4 typically keeps the loop coding-heavy while Google L5 expects stronger system-design and cross-team leadership signals. Use focused practice, mock interviews, and level-specific stories to prepare.

514 Questions 1 Company07.27.2026
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Hard
Software Engineer

Design viewing history and resume service

Design: Watched-Video and Resume Playback Service Context Design a backend service that records each user’s watched video list and lets them resume an...

System Design
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87 people solved
Sep 6, 2025
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Hard
Software Engineer

Make algorithm code production-ready

Productionizing a Sliding-Window String Algorithm Context: You have implemented a correct sliding-window algorithm for a classic string task (e.g., lo...

System Design
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84 people solved
Sep 6, 2025
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Hard
Software Engineer

Design an elevator control system

Elevator Control System Design (N floors, M elevators) Context You are designing a multi-elevator control system for a building with N floors (1..N) a...

System Design
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122 people solved
Sep 6, 2025
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Medium
Data Scientist

Explain and resolve Simpson’s paradox

Define Simpson’s paradox and construct a concrete numeric example where group-wise success rates favor treatment in each subgroup but the aggregate ra...

Statistics & Math
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102 people solved
Oct 13, 2025
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Medium
Data Scientist Locked

Assess education–income effect credibly

This question evaluates a data scientist's competencies in causal inference, experimental design, model selection, estimand specification (ATE) and se...

Analytics & Experimentation
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58 people solved
Oct 13, 2025
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Medium
Data Scientist Locked

Measure causal impact of YouTube ads

This question evaluates causal inference and experimental design skills for marketing measurement, including competency in identifying confounders, de...

Analytics & Experimentation
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137 people solved
Oct 13, 2025
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Medium
Data Scientist

Decide between two vendors under constraints

You have two third‑party search vendors, A and B, plus historical order‑level data: lead_time_days, unit_price, on_time_rate, defect_rate, min_order_q...

Machine Learning
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61 people solved
Oct 13, 2025
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Medium
Software Engineer

Handle joining overworked low-WLB team

Scenario You have just joined a new engineering team. You quickly notice that: - Every team member appears very busy and often works long hours. - Wor...

Behavioral & Leadership
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43 people solved
Nov 24, 2025
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Hard
Machine Learning Engineer

Compute winning probability on 1D dice walk

You are on an infinite 1D number line starting at position 0. Repeatedly roll a fair die that returns an integer uniformly at random from 1 to K (incl...

Coding & Algorithms
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166 people solved
Mar 2, 2026
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Easy
Software Engineer

How would you lead a team through delivery issues?

Interview Prompt (Behavioral & Leadership) You are interviewing for a software engineering role. The interviewer runs a mixed behavioral round: one ex...

Behavioral & Leadership
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49 people solved
Nov 17, 2025
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Medium
Data Scientist

Analyze Call Drop Rates Pre- and Post-Update Implementation

Analyze Call Drop Rates Pre- and Post-Update Implementation Engineers shipped a new Google Meet version intended to reduce call drops, but a tradition...

Analytics & Experimentation
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68 people solved
Jul 12, 2025
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Data Scientist

Generate Samples from Truncated Normal Distribution

Sampling from a Truncated Normal Distribution You draw from a normal distribution but only keep observations that are at least 1. Assume the original ...

Statistics & Math
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78 people solved
Jul 12, 2025
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Data Scientist

Build Model to Predict Customer Contract Renewal

Build a Model to Predict Customer Contract Renewal You are designing a model to predict whether an enterprise customer will renew a Google Meet contra...

Machine Learning
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293 people solved
Jul 12, 2025
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Hard
Product Manager

Google Strategic Foresight

Product Strategy Case: Threats and Technology Trends for Google You are presenting to a product leader audience. Be explicit about assumptions and use...

Product / Decision Making
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114 people solved
Jul 4, 2025
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Medium
Data EngineerIntern

Describe building and improving a dashboard

Describe a past project where you built a dashboard for business or product stakeholders. Explain the business goal, audience, metrics, data-quality w...

Behavioral & Leadership
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45 people solved
Mar 9, 2025
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Medium
Software EngineerNew Grad

Design a Dormitory Room-Assignment System (OOD)

You are asked to design the object-oriented model for a dormitory room-assignment system. You are given a set of students and a set of rooms. Each roo...

Software Engineering Fundamentals
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22 people solved
Feb 22, 2026
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Google
Hard
Software Engineer

Scale median under memory constraints

Scale median under memory constraints Design a Scalable Streaming Median Service Under Memory Constraints Context You are building a service that cons...

System Design
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68 people solved
Aug 8, 2025
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Medium
Data Scientist

Resolve Team Disagreement on Off-Site Activity Choice

Resolve Team Disagreement on Off-Site Activity Choice Behavioral Scenario: Off-site Activity Disagreement Context You’re organizing a team off-site fo...

Behavioral & Leadership
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53 people solved
Aug 4, 2025
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Hard
Software Engineer

Design a prioritized log manager with eviction

Design a prioritized log manager with eviction Design a Log Store with Priority- and Recency-Aware Eviction Context You are designing an in-memory (or...

System Design
6
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67 people solved
Aug 1, 2025
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Medium
Software Engineer

Show leadership and teamwork

Show leadership and teamwork Behavioral Leadership Question Context You are in an onsite software engineering behavioral and leadership interview. The...

Behavioral & Leadership
12
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54 people solved
Jul 29, 2025

Frequently Asked Questions

How hard are Google interview questions and how does difficulty vary by level?
Google interview questions are challenging but predictable: they range from medium algorithmic problems for new grads to hard, system- and architecture-focused problems at senior levels. L3/new-grad interviews emphasize correct, clean code with solid complexity and edge-case handling; expect two to three coding rounds plus a Googleyness/leadership conversation. L4 requires optimal solutions, clearer trade-off communication, and sometimes a system-design or domain round. L5 raises the bar on system design, scalability, ownership, and leadership impact. Non-SWE roles shift emphasis toward statistics, experiment design, or model-building depending on the job.
What does the Google interview process look like and where do these 514 questions appear?
The typical loop starts with a recruiter screen, one or more phone or virtual coding screens, then a virtual or in-person onsite loop of 3–5 forty-five minute interviews: mostly coding, plus a Googleyness/leadership behavioral round and usually one domain or system-design session for mid and senior roles. The 514-question corpus covers those stages: phone-screen style coding, onsite deep-coding, system-design prompts, analytics/experiment questions for data roles, ML implementation prompts, and product-spec behavioral cases. Hiring committee review, level calibration, and team match happen after the loop and extend timelines by several weeks.
How should I schedule my preparation and how much time do I need to prepare effectively?
Plan prep based on level and role: new grads should spend 4–6 weeks focused on core data structures, algorithm patterns, and 4–6 polished STAR stories. Mid-level L4 candidates should budget 6–10 weeks, adding system design and production-readiness topics plus mock interviews. L5 and above need 8–12+ weeks emphasizing architecture, trade-offs, and leadership narratives. Break weeks into coding practice, timed mocks, system-design sprints, and role-specific work (experiments for DS, model lifecycle for MLE). Run at least 6–10 realistic mock interviews and iterate on communication and edge-case testing.
What specific subtopics and recurring themes should I expect by role at Google?
For Software Engineer interviews expect spatial and streaming geometry problems (counting or removing points within distance), concurrency and async primitives, deterministic task ordering and schedulers, calendar/free-slot algorithms, boolean-expression fixes, array/subarray patterns, and small-system OOD prompts like dorm room assignment. Data Scientist questions concentrate on causal and experiment design, funnel and product-metric computation, unbiased upgrade experiments, bootstrap and percentile estimation from buckets, sampling algorithms, and applied modeling like shot-conversion. Machine Learning Engineer rounds emphasize transformer/LLM building blocks and trade-offs, recommendation and ranking cold-start strategies, weighted sampling, and implementation details.
Any standout tips and common pitfalls, including level-specific advice (L3, L4, L5) and intern/new-grad notes?
Start by matching preparation to level: L3/new-grad must deliver correct, well-tested code and clear complexity; L4 must reach optimal solutions, explain trade-offs, and show production thinking; L5 must demonstrate architecture, scaling trade-offs, and cross-team impact. For interns/new-grads expect a phone coding screen followed by a virtual onsite; practice timed screens and basic system thinking. Across levels, talk through examples, define constraints, test edge cases, and avoid premature optimization or vague assumptions. Prepare 4–6 STAR stories for Googleyness, and don’t overlook clear, testable code and thought-out system trade-offs.

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