Hi πββοΈ guys I passed HC approval for L3 and in the phase of team matching. I have an option to take extra interviews for L4 level. I have experience in Front-end and infra tool. I would like to pursue some cool backend engineering tracks. Some areas like map reduce, database, APIs,,, etc Iβm confident I can get better team matching to pursue these... but Even if I pass L4 interview, I donβt think the new team will want someone who has not much experience with their domain. I saw Blind posts people got rejected in Team Matching. But I really want to experience Google campus life!! TC: 240K Yoe: <3
It all depends on how much you want to work at G. If you really want to work there, take the down level.
So youβre saying if you fail the L4 interview, you will fail as a whole? They will not offer you the L3 back?
Thatβs possible. HC can reject me in team matching
Be careful with terminology. Team matching and HC are separate processes.
Congrats op. One of my friends got an offer for L3, gave additional rounds for L4 but the final offer was still L3. You should at least give it a try! Btw how good are you with Leetcode? Can you share your contest rating?
Iβm very confident w my LC skills, but I donβt have industry experience on distributed systems field which is what I pursue to do in next 4 years
They do hire L3s in backend infra roles. I got matched with a pretty hardcore team in Cloud + TI org (think Spanner/Bigtable) but I rejected because these teams are generally oncall nightmares.
There is low possibility I can nail L4 and get a team matching with the team where I want to work for. I donβt want to risk my offer. :) I have other interviews coming up though