Company loop library

A Java interview guide assumes one loop fits every company. These ten pages don't: for each company, the rounds, what each evaluates, the notable format, and how to prepare with pages on this site. Every claim names its source and that source's date.

as reported 2026-09-30 10 companies 14 dated sources

⚠️ Hiring facts change fast. Confirm with your own recruiter. Several sources are secondary reports, and each page says how confident to be — OpenAI is marked low because no first-party page could be read.

Pick a company

Googlephone screen, coding, design, Googleyness — then a committee you never meet. Confidence: one dated secondary source. Metathe loop where the AI assistant is part of the coding round. Confidence: one dated secondary source. AmazonLeadership Principles in every round — even the coding one. Confidence: official pages + one dated secondary source. Microsoftteam-run loops, with compliance in the design round. Confidence: one undated secondary source. Appleyou apply to a team, not the company. Confidence: one undated secondary source. Netflixsystem design carries the most weight; the culture memo is the rubric. Confidence: official culture page + one undated secondary source. NVIDIAan in-person onsite before any offer, and a hard line on outside AI tools. Confidence: first-party page only. Anthropiccustomer-discovery simulation, a build take-home, and clear rules on using Claude. Confidence: first-party pages + two dated secondary sources. OpenAIdecentralized by team; the reported FDE loop tests decomposition and customer constraints. Confidence: LOW — one dated secondary source; OpenAI's own site was not fetchable. Databricksa published stage list, a 2-3 month timeline, and six culture principles. Confidence: first-party pages + one dated secondary source.

How these pages were built

Each fact was read from the fetched page on 2026-09-30; a fact with no readable source is left out and the page says so. First-party pages (Amazon, NVIDIA, Anthropic, Databricks, Netflix) are marked separately from secondary ones (Wrok, Perspective, interviewing.io, Sundeep Teki). See also What top companies want and the JD decoder.