Technical Screen

Agentic System Design and a Coding Round That Turned Into 2D DP

GoogleForward Deployed Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026

The Google FDE interview mainly had two rounds. One round was basically an agentic system design round — just a casual chat with the interviewer about problems in agent system design. Questions included how to scale the agent, how to keep it safe, and what to do about agent infinite loops. The other round was SDE coding, and this is the one I really want to vent about. At first I felt pretty good…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jul 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.