Google New Grad Early Career R1: Meeting Rooms II and Behavioral Deep Dive

Role: Software Engineer, New Grad / Early Career
Result: Passed R1
Report time: March 2026

Coding interview

The coding problem was a business-themed version of LeetCode 253, Meeting Rooms II. The source mentions several simple follow-ups but does not preserve their exact requirements or whether they required implementation.

Practice: Minimum Number of Chairs / Meeting Rooms II

Behavioral interview

The behavioral session lasted about 40 minutes. It began with a discussion of an internship project and then moved into a long sequence of experience-based questions.

The candidate remembered topics including:

1. A disagreement with a teammate
2. Going beyond expectations
3. A failure or mistake
4. Working through ambiguity

The source does not preserve the exact wording of the coding follow-ups or the later timeline.