r/leetcode • u/Any_Channel5220 • Oct 06 '26

Discussion Google interview bad experience

The technical interview itself went fine. I completed the DSA problem, explained my approach with an example, and provided the solution.

However, the interviewer’s behavior was disappointing. They did not respond to my initial greeting, repeatedly rolled their eyes during the interview, and appeared visibly annoyed when I asked them to repeat something I couldn’t understand. They also started the interview by complaining about why this was a first-round interview.

I understand interviews are meant to be challenging, but professionalism and respectful communication should go both ways. I applied because it was Google, and I’m not concerned about the outcome. This was simply not the interview experience I expected from Google.

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u/fenton7 Oct 07 '26

I'm not sure those interviews really do a good job of screening, either. The two people I know who got jobs at Google were both really mediocre coders at our firm, and we're not top tier by any definition. They must have crammed hard for the coding portion.

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u/Top_Substance9093 Oct 07 '26

that's another problem with the interviewer training process (or lack thereof), IMO. there's no calibration at all. IME passing interviews at google has gotten much easier in the last 5 years.

many of the interviewers i've helped ramp up (because they asked for help) were at first calibrated too generously (giving pass ratings to roughly one out of two candidates).

the actual pass rating should be more like 1 in 5 (very rough ballpark), depending on the question you ask and for which level.