Google 2026 New Grad R1 Behavioral: Credit, Team Structure, Mentorship, and Feedback

Role: Software Engineer, New Grad
Result: Coding round rescheduled
Report time: December 2025

The interviewer appeared to read from a prepared behavioral-question list.

Questions

1. A team member takes all the credit. What do you do?
2. Describe working on an unstructured team.
3. How could you make that team more structured?
4. What makes someone a good leader or mentor?
5. Give an example of a previous leader demonstrating that quality.
6. What is your long-term career plan?
7. What distinguishes good feedback from bad feedback? Give examples.

The coding interviewer canceled at the last minute, so the technical round was rescheduled for early January. The source contains no later coding update.