Google Early Career Timeline: OA, R1, R2, and Waterloo Team Match

Role: Software Engineer, New Grad / Early Career
Result: Entered Team Match
Report time: January 2026
Application: Referral

Timeline

• September 2025: applied online with a referral
• November 9: completed the OA
• November 23: completed R1
• November 24: learned R1 had passed
• January 5, 2026: completed R2
• January 13: entered Team Match

Candidate background

The candidate was a University of Waterloo computer-science undergraduate graduating in May 2026. They reported six software-engineering internships across startups and small or mid-sized companies, primarily in full-stack and backend work involving web applications, data pipelines, and databases.

Their listed stack included Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, AWS, React, and PostgreSQL.

Team Match

At the time of the post, the candidate was looking for information about Waterloo-office headcount and possible teams. The report does not preserve the technical questions from OA, R1, or R2, so no specific practice link is asserted.