Google L4 chances

I recently completed my Google L4 SWE interview loop in India and wanted to get opinions from people familiar with Google hiring / HC decisions.
I have around 3 YOE and interviewed for L4.
Screening coding round
This round went very well. I solved the problem cleanly and, based on how the interview went, I would personally expect this to have been a strong positive signal.
I don’t want to over-index on my own assessment, but this was definitely the coding round I felt best about.
Onsite coding round 1
This round started in a pretty stressful way.
My interview was scheduled to start at 11:00 AM, and I had already reached the Google office and was waiting at reception before that.
But the interviewer/host never showed up.
Reception eventually told me that the host assigned to me was on leave. I didn’t have the recruiter’s phone number, so I was just sitting there trying to figure out what was happening and sending emails to the recruiting team asking what I was supposed to do.
There was no immediate clarity on whether the interview was delayed, cancelled, or whether someone else would take it.
I was honestly quite panicked by that point because this was my Google onsite, the scheduled interview time had already arrived, and I had no direct way to reach anyone apart from email.
Eventually they arranged another interviewer, and the interview finally started at around 11:45 AM, roughly 45 minutes after the scheduled start time.
So I went into the first coding round already somewhat stressed and thrown off.
At the start, the interviewer explicitly said something along the lines of:
“We’ll mostly be doing one question, maybe two, let’s see.”
The problem was primarily a divide-and-conquer / group-testing style problem.
I took a decent amount of time to reason through it, but eventually came up with the complete solution independently.
We also discussed the time complexity and the cost of the provided helper operation.
I did eventually reach the full solution, but I was slower than I would have liked.
There was no second question, although the interviewer had already said at the beginning that we would most likely do one question.
Onsite coding round 2
The second interview was primarily a sliding-window / circular-array style problem.
I again took some time to get to the optimal approach.
At one point I suggested using a prefix array. The interviewer asked:
“Is that really necessary?”
I reconsidered it and realized I could maintain the required counts directly while sliding the window.
So I wouldn’t describe this as the interviewer giving me the solution. It felt more like normal discussion where he challenged whether an extra data structure was necessary, and I simplified the solution myself.
I completed the approach.
There wasn’t another problem or a major follow-up after this one either.
My biggest concern about both onsite coding rounds is therefore not correctness, but speed. I got to the solutions, but I wasn’t particularly fast.
Googliness / behavioral round
This went well.
I had strong stories around ownership, ambiguity, disagreements, production incidents, leading without authority, and technical/business impact.
The conversation flowed well and I felt quite good about this round.
Overall self-assessment
If I had to guess my own signals:
Screening coding: Strong positive
Onsite coding 1: Positive / maybe Lean Hire-Hire, but slow
Onsite coding 2: Positive / maybe Lean Hire-Hire, but slow
Googliness: Strong positive
The thing I’m uncertain about is how heavily Google penalizes the slower pace at L4.
Neither onsite involved me being unable to solve the problem or the interviewer directly giving me the core algorithm.
Also, in the first onsite, the interviewer explicitly said beforehand that it would most likely be one question, so I’m not reading much into the lack of a second problem there.
The first-round logistics issue is also something I’m unsure how to think about. I don’t want to use it as an excuse, but I was definitely more stressed than usual after waiting at reception until about 11:45 AM for an 11:00 AM interview, trying to reach the recruiting team only through email, and not knowing for a while whether the interview was even going to happen.
What do you think is the most likely outcome?
For people familiar with recent Google L4 hiring, how would you roughly divide the chances between:
Clearing at L4 / moving to team matching
Being asked for an additional coding round because the technical signal is borderline
Being downleveled to L3
Outright rejection
I’m especially interested in how Google tends to evaluate candidates who eventually solve both onsite coding problems correctly and mostly independently, but take longer than ideal.
Would you consider this a reasonably positive L4 packet, or is the speed issue more damaging than I’m assuming?