Upcoming Interviews — Jul 6 → Aug 23, 2026

At-a-glance view of interviews only. Phone screens in green, onsite loops in fuchsia, OOO and oncall shaded. The right column ranks each week's study focus. Plaid (Aug 4), Retool (Aug 3 + 5), and Scale.ai (Aug 5–6) onsites are done. Google is now scheduled: mock system design Aug 13, in-person onsite Aug 20. Full day-by-day detail lives in July-Studying-Schedule.html.
Technical Screen Onsite loop OOO Oncall Weekly focus (ranked)
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Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
This week's focus
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WAYMOReact/UI
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8
GEMDS/A
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Focus · Jul 6–12
  1. DS/A gap patternsintervals, heap, coupons
  2. Plaid project deep dive
13
PLAIDDS/A + deep dive
14
RETOOLDS/A
15
16
SCALE.AIDS/A · 1–2pm PT
17
GOOGLEDS/A + behavioural
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19
Focus · Jul 13–19
  1. STAR / behavioural
  2. DS/A tune-up
  3. Sys design kickoffJul 18–19
20
OOO
LINEARBehavioral · Hiring Manager
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OOO
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OOO
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25
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Focus · Jul 20–26
  1. Systems designpart 1 · OOO Jul 20–22
  2. React/Angular — Waymopivot Jul 23+
  3. Waymo behavioural
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WAYMO1:30–3:15pm PT · React/UI
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WAYMO3:00–4:45pm PT · Behavioural → React/UI
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1 Aug
2 Aug
Focus · Jul 27–Aug 2
  1. Waymo onsiteJS/TS, Angular, React + behavioural — Angular is a gap, confirm scope
  2. Rest Jul 30–31loop is 2 days, not 4
3
RETOOLDS/A, Product System Design
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OOO
PLAIDBehavioural, Systems Design, HM Chat, Coding - React/UI
5
OOO
SCALE.AI10am–12pm PT · System Design, Fullstack Practical
RETOOL3–4:45pm PT · Project Deep Dive, HM Behavioural
6
OOO
SCALE.AI1–4:30pm PT · Technical Deep Dive, Credo, HM Conversation
7
OOO
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9
Focus · Aug 3–9
  1. Systems designpart 2 · Plaid/Retool loops
  2. Practical DS/A
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WAYMO2–2:45pm PT · React/UI (replacement round)
11
12
13
GOOGLE · MOCK4–5pm PT · Systems Design
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Focus · Aug 10–16
  1. Systems designGoogle mock Aug 13 — run the full 6-step playbook out loud, timed
  2. Async fundamentalsfetch/.then/.catch/.finally, AbortController, total vs idle timeout · worked solution in js-learning-journal → Async
  3. STARGoogliness rubric
  4. DS/A polish
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GOOGLE · IN PERSON11:15–12:00 DS/A · 12:00–1:00 lunch w/ Googler · 1:00–2:00 Systems Design · 2:00–2:45 DS/A
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Focus · Aug 17–23
  1. Google onsite Aug 202 DS/A rounds bookending 1 systems design — DS/A is the bulk
  2. DS/A under time pressurerounds 1 and 3 are 45 min each
  3. Systems designmiddle round is the full 60 min
  4. Googliness / lunchinformal but still signal