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Google Software Development Engineer II Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 8 Oct 2024

Google Software Development Engineer II Interview Experiences

2 interviews found

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Hard
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Feb 2024. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

DSA - Leetcode
Easy to Medium

Round 2 - Coding Test 

DSA - Leetcode Medium
Problem Solving

Round 3 - Coding Test 

System Design of Concurrent Streaming Platform

Round 4 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Cultural Fit For Company
  • Q2. Core Values that you hold
  • Ans. 

    Integrity, teamwork, continuous learning, empathy

    • Integrity - always being honest and doing the right thing, even when no one is watching

    • Teamwork - collaborating effectively with others to achieve common goals

    • Continuous learning - constantly seeking to improve and grow in knowledge and skills

    • Empathy - understanding and caring for others' perspectives and feelings

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Solve Leetcode - DSA
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Coding test live with medium-hard coding question

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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
4-6 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Dec 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Easy DSA question from String
  • Q2. Easy DSA question from Hashmap.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - There were 4 technical rounds based on DSA and Java.
I think next round may be of Managerial round if got selected
Interview experience
2
Poor
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Predecessor of a node in bst
  • Ans. 

    Predecessor of a node in a Binary Search Tree (BST) is the largest node in the left subtree of the given node.

    • In a BST, the predecessor of a node can be found by going to the left child of the node and then traversing to the rightmost node in the subtree.

    • If the left child of the node is null, then the predecessor will be the parent of the node or the ancestor node that is on the right side of the parent.

    • Example: In a B...

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Cache low level design
  • Ans. 

    Designing a cache system to improve performance by storing frequently accessed data in memory.

    • Identify the data that needs to be cached based on frequency of access

    • Choose an appropriate caching algorithm (LRU, LFU, etc.)

    • Decide on the cache size and eviction policy

    • Implement cache invalidation strategies to keep data up to date

    • Consider thread safety and concurrency issues

  • Answered by AI
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Aug 2023. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

It is Hacker rank test ,asked 2 questions and needs to solve in 1 hour

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Tested problem solving
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Low level designing
Round 4 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. It is managerial round
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
-

I applied via campus placement at The LNM Institute of information Technology, Jaipur and was interviewed before Apr 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Oops
Basic DSA
Project Based Discussions
NodeJs/ReactJS Fundamental Questions

Round 2 - Coding Test 

Advance Oops and DSA

Round 3 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. 1.) Why would you like to work for ncr
  • Q2. 2.) What you know about Self Serve Checkout
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Prepare DSA very well and also one common question which is very frequently asked ks design Hashmap and also implement LRU cache.

Round 2 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Tell me about yourself.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Try to do good negotiation as they are very flexible

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Sep 2021. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Reverse a linked list, number of character in string
  • Ans. 

    Reverse a linked list and find number of characters in a string.

    • To reverse a linked list, we can iterate through the list and change the pointers to reverse the order.

    • To find the number of characters in a string, we can use the length property or iterate through the string and count the characters.

    • For example, to reverse a linked list:

    • Node* prev = NULL; Node* current = head; Node* next = NULL; while (current != NULL) ...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Do proper data structure problems.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Decode the string. if integer is present, expand it those many times. ab2[b3[ac]]de --> abbacacacbacacacde
  • Ans. 

    Decode a string by expanding integers to repeat characters within brackets.

    • Iterate through the string character by character

    • If a digit is encountered, keep track of the number

    • When encountering '[', push the current result and number onto the stack

    • When encountering ']', repeat the substring inside brackets based on the number on top of the stack

    • Continue until the entire string is decoded

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Maximum length of the subarray which has almost 2 distinct elements
  • Ans. 

    Find the maximum length of a subarray with almost 2 distinct elements.

    • Use a sliding window approach to keep track of the count of distinct elements in the subarray.

    • Update the window size based on the number of distinct elements in the subarray.

    • Keep track of the maximum length encountered so far.

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I was interviewed in Apr 2024.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

1 Question related to tree traversal and another related to finding median in streaming data.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 2 coding rounds - prepare trees, graphs, heap concepts
1 lld round
1 hld round

Google Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Google Software Development Engineer II interview?
Google interview process usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Google interview process are Coding Test and HR.
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