How we research these guides
Every InterviewLegend guide covers one company's software engineer interview: how the process runs, what each round tests, and the questions candidates report. Here's what goes into a guide, how we check it, and how it stays current.
What a guide is built from
Candidate interview reports. People who just sat an interview write up what happened: the rounds, the questions, how long it took, what the interviewer pushed on. The guides draw on 20,000+ of these public reports, sorted by company and round.
The company's own words. Many companies publish how they hire, on their careers pages and interview prep pages. When a company states how its process works, we take that as the baseline and use reports to fill in what it leaves out.
Official policies. Rules that change how you prepare, like whether AI tools are allowed in an interview, come from the company's own pages when it has published one. When it hasn't, the guide goes by what candidates report, and you should confirm with your recruiter.
How claims are checked
A guide is full of small factual claims: how many rounds there are, whether the online assessment is proctored, what the final round covers. Each one is checked against the sources behind it before it goes in, and how firmly the guide states it depends on how strong those sources are.
So far we've graded 406 of these claims. 51 turned out to be wrong, and they were cut. 66 depend on the team, the level or the location, so the guide says what they depend on instead of picking one answer. 23 couldn't be confirmed either way, so they're hedged or left out.
Interview processes vary by team and change over time. Where something isn't settled, you'll read "often" or "on many teams" rather than a flat rule.
How guides stay current
Every lesson has a Report a question button. If you just interviewed, you can tell us the question, the round and roughly when it came up. Each report is reviewed before it's used, and your name is never attached.
Guides are updated monthly as new reports come in. Each lesson shows the month its guide last changed, right under the title.
What a guide can't tell you
Interviewers pick their own questions, so nobody outside the room knows exactly what you'll be asked. A guide shows you what candidates report most often for your company and round, and walks you through solving it.
InterviewLegend is independent. We aren't affiliated with or endorsed by any company we cover.
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If something in a guide looks wrong or out of date, write to contact@interviewlegend.com. We check it against our sources and correct the guide.