Google Forward Deployed Engineer Onsite
Company: Google
Role: Forward Deployed Engineer
Interview Month: May 2026
Interview Round: Onsite / Virtual Onsite
YOE: 4
Outcome: Offer
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Phone Screen on Construct Quad Tree
Interviewed: Dec 2026
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Anthropic L6 Infra SWE backend interview
Interviewed: Jun 2026
I got the question within time (including followup) and had some time at the end for randomly chatting with the interviewer and asking questions about Anthropic. Interviewer seemed...
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OpenAI Senior SWE
Interviewed: May 2026
Passed phone screens and now doing onsite. Overall good!
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Google Forward Deployed Engineer Onsite
Interviewed: May 2026
I interviewed for an L4 SWE role at Google last spring. The coding round was 45 minutes on Google Meet with a shared Google Doc — no IDE, no autocomplete. After a quick intro, the...
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Anthropic Phone Screen & Onsite
Interviewed: Apr 2026
I highly recommend going through all the Anthropic tagged questions on this site!
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AnthropicSoftware EngineerQuestions:5Outcome:RejectedLocked
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OpenAI phone screen system coding 75 mins
Interviewed: Apr 2026
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OpenAIML infra engineerQuestions:1Outcome:RejectedLocked
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Software Engineer
Interviewed: Apr 2026
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Doordash VO Rejection Experience
Interviewed: Apr 2026
Went through a virtual onsite with four rounds: system design, coding, incident debug, and HM behavioral. I felt underprepared on some deeper points in the system design round. The...
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DoorDashSoftware EngineerQuestions:7Outcome:RejectedLocked
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Phone screen
Interviewed: Apr 2026
Interviewer was very relaxed and made it comfortable 10 min behavioural in the beginnning How to handle conflicts? How do you bring people to come together towards a discussion?
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Uber SSE
Interviewed: Apr 2026
Emphasis was on a DP solution .
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Phone Screen on Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock and Vertical Order Traversal
Interviewed: Mar 2026
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Virtual Onsite with Phone Number Letter Combinations, Feed Ranking Design, and Handwritten Linear and Logistic Regression
Interviewed: Mar 2026
My virtual onsite had four rounds: a coding round, a behavioral round, a system design round, and an ML algorithm round.
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