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Hey everyone,

I’m in a bizarre and incredibly stressful situation with Google for an L4 SWE role and need some perspective or advice from anyone who has gone through this recently.

The timeline so far:

• I completed my virtual technical interview loop a few weeks ago.

• I felt okay about it, and my recruiter reached out saying they were moving forward with team matching.

• We successfully found a manager match, and I thought we were heading into the final stages (Hiring Committee / compensation discussions).

The twist:

My recruiter just called me this morning and dropped a massive curveball. Instead of sending the packet to HC for a final offer, he told me I need to come into a local Google office for one additional, in-person coding round.

He framed it as needing more signal/validation before locking things down. I am spiraling a bit. I thought passing the loop and getting a team match meant I was mostly in the clear, but now I’m thrown right back into high-pressure interview mode.

My questions for the sub:

1. Why the in-person requirement? Is Google doing this to audit virtual loops due to the rise of AI-cheating tools/false flags, or did my interviewers just give completely mixed feedback that requires a tie-breaker?

2. What should I expect from a single in-person round? Is it a traditional whiteboard algorithm grind, or are they moving toward the newer "code comprehension" / debugging formats in-person?

3. How deep do I need to go on prep? If I grind the NeetCode 150 (focusing heavily on Trees, Graphs, and Arrays), is that enough to survive a one-off signal round?

Any insights, similar experiences, or brutally honest reality checks would be hugely appreciated. Thanks.

I joined an AI startup in bay area as a software engineer three months ago and I like the work I am doing and the fact that I am getting recognition and ownership in my role here. Today I got an offer from Amazon for SDE role in Seattle (which I had applied to before I got an offer from my current company, and got an interview call last week). Amazon offers better salary and monetary perks than my current company. My current salary is 110k and amazon base salary is 130k (with 40k additional bonus for signing). I like my startup’s culture and my work but I am excited about working in a big company and the offer looks lucrative.

Should I keep working in the current company and get more experience before trying to switch or should I take the Amazon offer now? Is it considered a very bad thing to leave a company in three months time?

Advice please.

So here's what happened.

I kinda fucked up, while in college (passed out in 2025 from a tier 3), I used to be good at math and coding. Then i was given an offer to join a company (Weikfield Mnemonix Infonetworks Pvt. Ltd.) as a developer where my role would be to develop an end to end solution for a trading application that would execute real time trades based on the real time stream of NSE option data using custom made algorithms. This company never paid me in a proper manner, always late. And that too from a savings account of a person, and no PF. I have left this company a while back having completed 2 years of work with them. Now I am stuck with an experience that I think will be of no use.Tried for full stack roles but I am a MERN guy, and there are plenty of roles for Spring but not for mine, and I end up competing with 5 year experience people when I finally get an interview. At this point I feel if I could just go back to being the coder I used to be and improve my DSA skills then I could perhaps land a job in FAANG.

Can I? What am I missing? What path should I take? Please help me out.

24M, I am currently an Associate Data Analyst in an MNC (I won't be disclosing the name but it's a Data Analytics Company). Pays me well but I don't want to be a Data Analyst. I want to get into FAANG, especially Google, I have an experience of 1 yr.

The problem is, what to study and what to put on the Resume so that it get's selected for Interviews at different FAANG level Companies (N for Nvidia is also considered). I have done DSA using C++ and Python Programming along with advanced SQL in work experience. But idk if that's gonna get me Landed there. My goal is first Land in Google and get a good Working Experience but how and where do I start? DSA, OOPS, SQL, what else?

What Projects? What CS Fundamentals?

Help me out please.

Has anyone who applied through the Google Careers portal (not via Google Big Code) received any emails yet? If so, when did you apply, and what kind of email did you receive?

Did anyone had interview for this role at qualcomm?

Job number : 200041041

I am creating this thread to see if anyone out there has got any update on this posting. Please share time line and whatever updates you ppl have.