Google New Grad HC Rejection: Three Coding Rounds and One Behavioral Round

Role: Software Engineer, New Grad
Result: Rejected at hiring committee
Report time: August 2025

The candidate completed one behavioral interview and three coding interviews on the same day. Recruiting requested a transcript roughly one or two weeks later, then hiring committee rejected the packet about one week after submission.

The candidate suspected that a low GPA and interview signals that were not strong enough may have contributed, but no official rejection reason was provided.

Reported coding topics

The source remembers only broad labels:

• A Rotting Oranges variation
• An unnamed Medium dynamic-programming problem
• A house-painting problem
• A DFS graph task whose details were forgotten
• A Medium string/object-oriented coding problem

These labels do not preserve the variants' inputs, objectives, outputs, constraints, or follow-ups. Replacing them with standard LeetCode problems would invent what was actually asked, so no exact practice links are asserted.

Behavioral interview

The candidate described the behavioral round as straightforward and the interviewer as friendly.