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Software Engineer

Coding-heavy, with system design mandatory from mid-level up; loops differ mostly in how OA and onsite rounds are combined.

Active jobs

5,090

Companies

731

Questions

2,898

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Interview process

Stages are ranked by how many reported questions belong to each round. Loops vary by company.

Recruiter screen35 questions

Online assessment413 questions

Phone screen1231 questions

Technical screen172 questions

Take-home12 questions

Onsite coding1031 questions

ML & system design426 questions

Technical deep dive70 questions

Behavioral63 questions

Research2 questions

Final round38 questions

What to prepare

Topics ranked by how often they appear in reported questions.

Medium1672 Hashmap558 Array454 String330 Easy326 Simulation304 Hard300 System Design270 Data Structure250 Sorting220 Graph210 Distributed Systems206 Caching187 Grid187 Concurrency181 Parsing173 Heap168 Dfs164 Scaling154 Bfs150 Object Design150 Greedy147 Tree142 Python135

Common questions

2898 questions, weighted toward system design and open-ended technical prompts. Open one for the reference answer.

ML & system design480

Job Scheduler System Design Design Netflix Coffee Ordering System Design Design Shazam (Song Recognition)Storing and Distributing Multi-GB Container Images Firing Scheduled Events On Time at Scale

Open-ended technical130

Google Hiring Assessment (GHA / Work Styles)Physical Design Fundamentals: Timing, Clocking, Power & DFT Compiler & C/C++ Fundamentals Quiz Project Deep Dive (Every Onsite Round)Members-only question Members-only question

Behavioral97

EDG HireVue Screen Members-only question Members-only question Members-only question Members-only question Members-only question

ML coding2191

AI Assistant Repo Bug-Fix (OA Part 2)Code Craft: Dasher Pay Text Highlighting / Citation Tagging AI Coding — Maze Solver Infection Spread / Cellular Automata Loan Aggregation & Transaction Matching (Parent-Company Resolution)

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Recent interview reports

First-hand reports from the community, newest first.

Who is hiring

Ranked by active US Software Engineer openings on our job board: 5,090 jobs across 731 companies.

Apple405 openings 02

Walmart Global Tech217 openings 03

IBM207 openings 04

Capital One205 openings 05

Google203 openings 06RRtx173 openings 07

NVIDIA166 openings 08

Adobe112 openings

Companies with reported questions

ByteDance / TikTok67

Square (Block)52

Goldman Sachs38

Citadel / Citadel Securities31

The Trade Desk27

JPMorgan Chase23

Abnormal Security22

Akuna Capital22

Hudson River Trading19

Applied Intuition16

Temu / Pinduoduo15

SIG (Susquehanna International Group)14

Tower Research Capital14

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Counts use active company-site openings with a US location whose title matches the software-engineer rule.

What to expect

Timeline, difficulty, common failure points, and what to watch for at the offer stage.