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Test Engineer / SWE in Test

Interview rounds

  1. 1Recruiter screen
  2. 2Coding rounds (LeetCode easy–medium, e.g. graph paths)
  3. 3Test design / automation round
  4. 4Behavioural (Googleyness)

What they focus on

  • Algorithms with complexity
  • Test tooling that lets developers test their own code
  • Black-box vs white-box testing
  • Comparing automation frameworks

💡 Tip: Test Engineers at Google write tools, not manual test cases. Show that you think like a developer who cares about testability.

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Practice questions for Google

Filter by your experience, and pick a language, automation tool or database for theory and coding. Topics reported for Google come first; the “asked in most interviews” lists are general questions worth preparing for any company. Full question bank →

Experience
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Databases

Reported for Google: Framework & CI. Other topics are here too — what you get asked depends on the team, so check the job description.

Theory

20 questions

Asked in most interviews · 27

27 questions

🤖 Emerging — increasingly asked (AI & LLM) · 24

AI-testing topics are showing up in more QA interviews, but weren't specifically reported for Google. Worth preparing if the role mentions AI.

24 questions

Coding

5 questions

Asked in most interviews · 14

14 questions

🤖 Emerging — increasingly asked (AI & LLM) · 9

AI-testing topics are showing up in more QA interviews, but weren't specifically reported for Google. Worth preparing if the role mentions AI.

9 questions

Behavioural & situational

6 questions

Asked in most interviews · 25

25 questions

🤖 Emerging — increasingly asked (AI & LLM) · 7

AI-testing topics are showing up in more QA interviews, but weren't specifically reported for Google. Worth preparing if the role mentions AI.

7 questions

Sources

Summarised in our own words; processes change and vary by team, role and location.

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