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.

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Data Scientist

Detect Overfitting or Underfitting in Logistic Regression Models

Detect Overfitting or Underfitting in Logistic Regression Models Logistic Regression Bias–Variance in High‑Dimensional Ads Prediction Scenario You are...

Machine Learning
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91 people solved
Aug 4, 2025
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Hard
Data Scientist

Boost Google Workspace Chat Usage with Strategic A/B Testing

Boost Google Workspace Chat Usage with Strategic A/B Testing Scenario Google Workspace Chat adoption is low, and leadership asks for a data-driven pla...

Analytics & Experimentation
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74 people solved
Aug 4, 2025
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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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Software Engineer

Maximize Boundary-Difference Subarray Sum

Given an integer array nums and an integer k, find the maximum possible sum of a non-empty contiguous subarray whose first and last elements differ by...

Coding & Algorithms
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20 people solved
Apr 11, 2026
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Hard
Software Engineer Locked

Find conflicting pair using black-box run()

This question evaluates algorithm design and query-complexity reasoning, focusing on efficient search strategies for identifying an interacting pair v...

Coding & Algorithms
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92 people solved
Jan 15, 2026
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Data Scientist

Evaluate Auto-Reply Feature Success with Metrics and Experiments

Evaluate Auto-Reply Feature Success with Metrics and Experiments A chat product ships an auto-reply suggestion feature, such as "Thanks!" or "Sounds g...

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

Compare Logistic Regression and Random Forest in Limited Data Scenarios

Compare Logistic Regression and Random Forest in Limited Data Scenarios You are designing a binary classifier with limited labeled data. The signal ma...

Machine Learning
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254 people solved
Jul 12, 2025
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Data Scientist

Engineer Features to Enhance Smartphone Battery Life Prediction

Battery Life Prediction with Sparse History You are given sparse discharge traces that record battery percentage over elapsed time for prior usage ses...

Machine Learning
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385 people solved
Jul 12, 2025
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Data Scientist

Design A/B Test for Subscription Price Increase Effectiveness

A/B Testing a Subscription Price Increase and Sign-up CTA A B2B SaaS company is considering two experiments: raising subscription prices and improving...

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

Adjust YouTube Ad Scores Using Mixed-Effects Linear Regression

Adjusting YouTube Ad Scores with Mixed-effects Regression One hundred reviewers each rate the same 100 YouTube ads on a 1 to 10 scale. Some reviewers ...

Machine Learning
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104 people solved
Jul 12, 2025
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Software Engineer

Describe manager and cross-team communication

Cross-Functional Communication, Expectations, and Risk Management (Behavioral) Context You are interviewing for a Software Engineer role in an onsite ...

Behavioral & Leadership
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41 people solved
Sep 6, 2025
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Software Engineer

Design autocomplete with Trie

Design and implement an autocomplete service backed by a prefix tree (Trie). The service stores a dynamic dictionary of words, each carrying an intege...

Coding & Algorithms
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170 people solved
Sep 6, 2025
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Software Engineer

Evaluate career paths under visa constraints

Career Decision Analysis After Layoff: 7 Paths, Decision Criteria, Matrix, Recommendation, and 90-Day Plans Context You are a laid-off software engine...

Behavioral & Leadership
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67 people solved
Sep 6, 2025
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Data Scientist

Estimate percentile from buckets

You are given an approximate histogram of search-query frequencies. Each bucket i is represented as (left_bd_i, right_bd_i, bucket_count_i), where buc...

Statistics & Math
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71 people solved
Feb 5, 2025
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Software Engineer AI Locked

Solve checksum and dependency debugging tasks

This question evaluates skills in string processing, modular arithmetic-based checksum computation and mapping, plus debugging of feature enablement l...

Coding & Algorithms
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125 people solved
Apr 4, 2026
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Product Manager

Product Ideation with Street-View Car Images

Product Sense and Decision Making: Street View Images and Fair Delivery You are in a Product Manager interview. Work through two separate product prom...

Product / Decision Making
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135 people solved
Jul 4, 2025
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Product Manager

Behavioral & Execution Scenarios

Product Manager Phone Screen: Behavioral and Execution Scenarios Provide concrete, role-relevant examples for each situation below. Focus on actions, ...

Behavioral & Leadership
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68 people solved
Jul 4, 2025
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Product Manager

Build vs. Buy Decision Framework

Product Decision Prompt: Build vs. Buy Framework Your team needs to deliver a new system to support a product. You can either build it in-house or buy...

Product / Decision Making
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157 people solved
Jul 4, 2025
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Can board states be transformed?

This question evaluates reasoning about constrained piece movement, string transformation, and invariant-based correctness in the Coding & Algorithms ...

Coding & Algorithms
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182 people solved
Apr 1, 2026
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Hard
Machine Learning Engineer Locked

Solve several streaming, DAG, and DP tasks

This multi-part question evaluates proficiency in streaming and online algorithms, DAG-based scheduling and parallelism reasoning, and constrained dyn...

Coding & Algorithms
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148 people solved
Jan 6, 2026

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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