YouTube Software Engineer interview experience

After that, I moved into a sequence of interview rounds that totaled four interviews. Three of them were coding-focused, and there was one additional round that was behavioral.

What I felt most strongly was relief just to get a call back at all—by the time I was in the later stages, I felt like I was already getting a second chance that I hadn’t expected. The coding rounds were the core of the evaluation, and the behavioral round added a different lens.

I didn’t end up with an offer. Still, the process felt like it went in the “do the work, then prove it again” direction, and that final