Google L4 Chances?
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Hey there, just finished a 3 round onsite, and wanted to get some opinions on the chances to move forward. My journey so far seems a bit out of the ordinary also. The following interviews are in order chronologically, so I ended up speaking with a hiring manager before even the phone screen.

Team Match:
I had ended up talking with a team immediately to see if there was interest, had a great conversation with a team and was told by the recruiter that other teams were also interested.

Phone Screen:

Apparently did extremely well, recruiter couldn't provide any feedback on what to do better, besides just emulating that in the onsite round. I'm assuming SH here, there wasn't anything I could get from the recruiter for feedback, even when asking for mock rounds after this round.

Onsite Round 1:
Was my toughest round, was a backtracking problem mapping words in a dictionary to decipher the line. I figured out the approach but had trouble handling the coding due to time constraints, and various string manipulation needed for the code. I'd say LNH/LH as a result for this round, but could be a weak H as I finished the code and was very thorough in talking through edge cases, thought process, thought process in coding.

Onsite Round 2:
Googliness round with the hiring manager I talked with at the Team Match. Seemed to go well, was able to use STAR for all the answers and the vibe seemed to be great by the end with questions. H or SH depending on the perception of my situations and the amount of independence they think i had.

Onsite Round 3:
Another strong DS&A round. Was a question similar to https://leetcode.com/problems/buildings-with-an-ocean-view/ . I'm assuming H/SH based off of the very positive feedback from the interviewer.

I'm pretty worried about potentially getting downlevel since Google is notorious of it. I'm at around 2.5-3 YOE currently so I'm not looking to stay at L3 or Entry level for much longer if possible. What are the chances of an offer that isn't down-leveled here?

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