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THE LOOP
How the Google loop usually runs
Software Engineer
Based on 82 candidate reports, latest Oct 2026
- Recruiter screen20%
- Technical phone screen50%
- Onsite or virtual loop52%
- Coding rounds89%
- Behavioral43%
- Team matching30%
Percentages are the share of reports that mention each stage. They come from what candidates wrote, not from an official process.
WHAT TO PREPARE
Topics that come up most
Software Engineer
Based on 82 candidate reports, latest Oct 2026
- Graphs and BFS/DFS40
- Arrays and strings40
- Dynamic programming27
- Trees and tries21
- Binary search18
- Heaps and priority queues12
Topic counts are the number of candidate reports that mention each topic. They are based on reported experiences, not an official company syllabus.
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| Access | Type | Question or experience | Open |
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| Free preview | Experience | Google L4 Interview Experience Sep 2026 | → |
| Free preview | Experience | Google SWE II (L3) Interview Experience - India | 2026 Sep 2026 | → |
Experience | Sequence dependent tasks with JavaScript promises | → | |
Experience | Build retry and Promise-like utilities | → | |
Experience | Hash-based lookup and 2D path traversal | → | |
Experience | String processing with autocomplete behavior | → | |
Experience | L3/L4 frontend loop: task sequencing, promise retry, autocomplete Jun 2021 | → | |
Experience | Frontend onsite: phone screen, three algorithm and two JavaScript rounds May 2018 | → | |
Experience | Google | Front End Engineer | Pittsburgh | Oct 2019 [Reject] | → | |
Experience | Google | Front End Engineer | Sunnyvale | Spring 2019 [Reject] | → | |
Experience | Google | Front End Phone Interview [Rejected] | → | |
Experience | Google | Front End L3 / L4 | San Bruno | Nov 2019 [Reject] | → | |
Experience | Google | L3 Front End | MTV | 2019 Dec [Rejected] | → | |
Experience | Google | Front End Engineer | MTV | Nov 2019 [Pending] | → | |
Experience | Google | Front End Engineer | Phone Interview [Reject] | → | |
Experience | My Google Interview Experience (iOS Developer) | → | |
Experience | Partition overlapping rectangles by area | → | |
Experience | Count arithmetic subarrays efficiently | → | |
Experience | Schedule jobs across limited machines | → | |
Experience | Playlist shuffle with a repeat-free window | → | |
Experience | Boolean-expression evaluation library | → | |
Experience | Stream, dynamic programming, and probability coding loop | → | |
Experience | L4 all rounds: geometry, job scheduling, randomized playback Aug 2024 | → | |
Experience | L5 loop: stream processing, DP, probability, system design Mar 2024 | → | |
Experience | L4 Bangalore: area partition, graph probability, leadership Mar 2025 | → | |
Experience | L4 India: three DSA rounds and Googliness Mar 2025 | → | |
Experience | L4 India full-stack: trees, BST, heap, sliding window Aug 2025 | → | |
Experience | L4 offer: array DP, tree DFS, priority queue, team matching May 2025 | → | |
Experience | L5 Bangalore offer: compression, graph, cache design, news product Jan 2025 | → | |
Experience | SDE-3 screen: concurrent document counts, matchmaking OO design Jul 2025 | → | |
Experience | Google SWE III (L4) — Onsite Experience & Team Matching Timeline Aug 2026 | → | |
Experience | Google L4 | Bangalore May 2026 | → | |
Experience | 🚀 Google Interview Experience (2 Rounds) SWE - II (L3) May 2026 | → | |
Experience | Google L3 SWE Interviews Sep 2026 | → | |
Experience | Google L4 India: Application, Googlyness + DSA OA, behavioral, DSA with Two Sum Oct 2026 | → | |
Experience | Google: Screening round with Rat's Safest Path + Googliness behavioral Oct 2026 | → | |
Experience | Google L3: Phone screen with AI usage discussion and square-counting problem Oct 2026 | → | |
Experience | Google India L3 SWE: 4 rounds (Virtual Technical, Googlyness, 2 Onsite Technical) - Offer Accepted Sep 2026 | → | |
Experience | Google L4: Phone screening, Googlyness, 2 Onsite rounds with detailed DSA problems Sep 2026 | → | |
Experience | Google SWE-III India: 4-round loop (2 screening + 2 onsite DSA) - Graph to DP problems Sep 2026 | → | |
Experience | Google L4: 4 virtual + onsite rounds (Grid paths, Rectangle area, Job scheduling) with complete code Sep 2026 | → | |
Experience | Google L3 Phone Screen + Googlyness Oct 2026 | → | |
Experience | Google L4 Interview Experience Date October 5th 2026 Oct 2026 | → | |
Experience | Google Interview Experience | → | |
Experience | Google SWE Interview | → | |
Experience | Google SWE Phone Interview (Reject) | → | |
Experience | Google Interview Experience | → | |
Experience | Google Interview Experience | → | |
Experience | Google SDE 3 interview | phone screen experience | USA | → | |
Experience | Google SWE-SRE onsite interview experience (Feb 2025) | → | |
Experience | Google SRE-SWE onsite interview experience (Dec 2025) | → | |
Experience | Google staged loop experience (Jul 2024) | → | |
Experience | Google SWE onsite result (Oct 2026) | → | |
Experience | Google L6 phone screen result (Oct 2026) | → | |
Experience | Google L4 software engineer interview journey (Mar 2025, not hired) | → | |
Experience | Google SWE (University Graduate 2026) interview experience (Jul 2026, not hired) | → | |
Experience | Google L5 SWE interview experience (Mar 2026, not hired) | → | |
Experience | Google SDE-2 (L3) interview experience (Apr 2025, offer) | → | |
Experience | Google SDE hiring process and interview experience (Feb 2024, offer) | → | |
Experience | Google SDE intern interview experience, India (Mar 2020, not selected) | → | |
Experience | Google interview experience, L3 SWE (Jun 2024, offer) | → | |
Experience | My Google interview experience, Part 1: recruiter and phone rounds (Mar 2021) | → | |
Experience | Google SDE-2 interview experience, rejected in round one (Aug 2024) | → | |
Experience | Google new grad SDE interview experience (Apr 2021) | → | |
Experience | Google SDE-3 MLE interview experience, questions and approaches (Jul 2026, not successful) | → | |
Experience | Google SDE-3 MLE interview experience, round overview (Jun 2026) | → | |
Experience | Google early career SWE interview experience, Canada (Jan 2026, not hired) | → | |
Experience | Google SDE intern interview experience, Canada (Oct 2022 to Apr 2023, rejected) | → | |
Experience | Google SWE hiring experience, two attempts, offer (Mar 2022) | → | |
Experience | Google SDE-2 interview experience, preparation and rounds (Jun 2026) | → | |
Experience | Google L3 interview experience, Oct 2024 (not hired) | → | |
Experience | Google L4 SWE interview experience, offer (Jun 2025, written about a colleague) | → | |
Experience | Software Engineer L3 at Google, interview experience, offer (Jun 2021) | → | |
Experience | Google L4 software engineer interview experience, 8 rounds (Oct 2025, not hired) | → | |
Experience | Google SWE interview journey with team fit and hold decision (Jul to Nov 2021) | → | |
Experience | Google SWE L3 interview experience, offer (Jun 2023) | → | |
Experience | Google SWE interview experience, phone screen and onsite (Jul 2021, not hired) | → | |
Experience | Google SWE (ML) interview experience, phone screens (Jan 2023) | → | |
Experience | Google SWE III (AI/ML) interview experience, rejected (Feb 2026) | → | |
Experience | Google SWE University Graduate interview experience (Mar 2022, not selected) | → | |
Experience | Google L4 SWE onsite interview experience, Warsaw (Nov 2022, stalled in team matching) | → | |
Experience | Google SWE interview experience, Seattle cloud team (Jul 2022, not selected) | → | |
Experience | Google SWE L3 interview experience, rejected (Mar 2025) | → | |
Experience | Google SWE intern interview experience, off-campus (Oct 2023) | → | |
Experience | My Complete Google Interview Experience (Oct 2025) | → | |
Experience | My Google Interview Experience [L5 Offer] (Jun 2025) | → | |
Experience | Google SWE Interview Process (Jun 2024) | → | |
Experience | Google SWE Intern Interview (2024): The Journey, Not the Destination (Dec 2024) | → | |
Experience | Google- SWE Intern’25 Interview process (Selected) (Nov 2024) | → | |
Experience | Google SWE Intern’24 Interview Experience (Feb 2024) | → | |
Experience | Landing a Google SWE Internship: Interview Experience and preparation journey (Apr 2023) | → | |
Experience | Google India SWE Summer Intern’24 Interview Experience (Dec 2023) | → | |
Experience | Google SWE Summer Intern 2022 Interview Experience (Nov 2021) | → | |
Experience | Google SWE Intern’23 Interview experience [3 rounds] (Jan 2023) | → | |
Experience | My Google SWE Intern 2022 Experience (Nov 2021) | → | |
Experience | Google US phone screen experience l4/l5 | → | |
Experience | Group strings by cyclic equivalence | → | |
Experience | Dependency deletion order | → | |
Experience | Shortest route with broken teleporters | → | |
Experience | Rank and personalize email search results | → | |
Experience | L4 DS/MLE: rotational strings, dependency order, email retrieval ML design May 2025 | → | |
Experience | Google | Machine Learning Engineer | Bangalore | Dec 2019 [Reject] | → | |
Experience | Recent google interview experience for Google Cloud AI engineer role | → | |
Experience | Google ML system design onsite (outcome not posted) | → | |
Experience | SDE-3 MLE: 6 rounds with DSA, domain, googliness; string grouping, DP, game theory, ML system design Jun 2026 | → | |
Experience | How I got Google MLE (L3) offer with just 137 LC questions | → | |
Experience | Google iOS L5 (YouTube iOS, Bangalore): 5 rounds, no offer posted Dec 2024 | → | |
Experience | Google | Cloud Data Engineer | 9 yof | → |
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