Finished the P&G SWE loop about six weeks ago and wanted to write up the full picture because when I was prepping I could barely find anything recent.
For context: mid-level role, 6 YOE, applied through LinkedIn for a position on their digital platforms team in Cincinnati. Not remote.
Timeline: Application to recruiter call: 12 days. Recruiter call to online assessment: about a week. OA results to interviews: two weeks. Total: roughly five weeks start to finish, which felt faster than I expected.
The stages: Recruiter phone screen (30 min). Standard background stuff, nothing technical. Online assessment. HackerRank platform, two coding problems, 75 minutes. Details in another post. Two back-to-back video interviews. Each was 45 minutes and had a mix of coding and behavioral. Not what I expected, honestly. I thought it'd be either/or. Final virtual onsite: four rounds, all on the same day, spread across morning/afternoon. One was purely behavioral, one had a system design component, two were behavioral/technical combos.
The interviewers were all friendly. P&G has a reputation for being a bit stiff corporate-wise but the people I talked to were genuine. One of them was a manager who'd been there 11 years and actually seemed to like it.
What tripped me up: I underestimated how much behavioral weight they put on everything. Even the coding rounds had a 15-minute behavioral tail. If you go in just grinding LeetCode you'll get caught off guard.
I prepped my STAR stories pretty carefully because someone online mentioned they ask a lot of "tell me about a time" questions specifically around cross-functional collaboration. That was real. Three of the four final rounds touched it.
Outcome: Got an offer. Negotiated up a bit from initial. If anyone wants specifics on comp, separate post coming.