Bounce rate and subdomains

So for Google's form formula (not analytics) does landing on one subdomain and clicking into another subdomain count as a bounce?

I've read read for SEO it's important to worry about bounce rate, time on site, total visits and pages visited per session.

So if someone enters on one category of my site, then navigates to another category which has its own subdomain, does Google count that as a bounce and segmented time on site and pages per session or does Google know it's all the same website and give credit as not a bounce etc?

Thanks.

A "bounce" is when somebody leaves your site without interacting with it.

So, if somebody clicks on your site, then clicks over to a subdomain without interacting with the page they landed on, then yes, it is technically a bounce.

However, Google couldn't give two shits about bounce rate. They care about "pogo sticking" which is when somebody makes a search on Google, clicks on a result, and then hits the back button to go back to Google.

Bounce rate, though, isn't necessarily a bad thing. Somebody could search for something, click on your page, have that query answered, then leave. And that's perfectly fine.

Google will not count that as a bounce rate since it is still within the same website.
Note: You need to rethink the structure of your website regarding subdomains. Is it giving your uses good user experience?

Donald Kwame said:

Google will not count that as a bounce rate since it is still within the same website.
Note: You need to rethink the structure of your website regarding subdomains. Is it giving your uses good user experience?

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it will be a bounce since it's a subdomain. Also, Google still doesn't care about bounces.

Pogo Sticking and trafficjacking is much worse than bounce rate. Bounce rate doesn't have any negative impact on SEO but these two could affect negatively.

As already mentioned Google rankings are not about Bounce Rate. To be exact Google Analytics doesn't count the Bounce Rate correctly. I have clients with a high bounce rate that have great traffic and rankings. I've come to the conclusion that Yandex metrica are much better at estimating the actual Bounce Rate. But that's all about comparing. Don't trust Google's tools entirely they do make mistakes and Google, in general, makes mistakes (de-indexing millions of pages recently).