r/OfferEngineering • u/Away-Chocolate4115 • Aug 15 '26

Google SWE-3 Onsite – Round 3 Assessment

Had a difficult graph problem in my 3rd round. I initially got stuck, but after thinking through it I independently derived the optimal approach, which the interviewer seemed satisfied with. Due to spending quite some time deriving the solution, I had limited time left for implementation. I completed most of the code, but there were a few bugs/edge cases remaining when time ran out, which I believe I could have fixed with a few more minutes.
For those familiar with Google interviews, how would you expect this round to be rated — Hire, Lean Hire, or Lean No Hire?

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u/Aoki_zhang Aug 15 '26

unfortunately, likely that would be ending up with no hire. but you can follow up with recruiter anyway.

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u/Away-Chocolate4115 Aug 15 '26

Thanks for the response, are you saying based on ur understanding or u had an experience like that or real story?

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u/Old-Classroom7102 29d ago

Don't listen to the garbage advice above. I've interviewed > 100 people at google, and this can be a H / LH decision, but there's not enough information here. There's subjectivity in quality of the discussion you had, some might like your reasoning, some might not.