Finished all interviews but still failed
No shit. I failed Google interview. I am a loser feelinf bad enough. The thing made me feel even worse is I don’t know what I did wrong and how I could do better. So my question is for those who finished all coding interview questions, sit there chatting with interviewers but failed. Have you figured out later what’s wrong? Maybe a bug or esge case somewhere interviwer didn’t tell you?
Interviews aren’t always fair and there’s decent amount of luck involved. Move on. Been there done that.
Just finishing all the questions isn't sufficient. Interviewers also ask themselves "would I want to work with this person".
So you mean the interviewers from google are perfect in all regards. So if they find any flaw in the code..its a reject !!!
Keep trying. It is not abnormal to fail the first few attempts.
It’s not just about finishing the questions but they check for characteristics like how you communicate your thoughts
This!
And there are tonnes of other great companies out there, dont give too much importance to Google
Google interviewers don't make the hiring decision. Their feedback gets assembled into a "packet", and a committee makes the final decision. They're extremely picky. Amazon is similar, in the sense that there's a "bar raiser" who can veto even if everybody says Hire. From my past experience being on the other side (everybody said yes but still rejected), one factor could be: communication. Even if you get a question right, if they don't see you explaining your approach and solution (without them asking you to explain), if they don't see you "think loudly" when you're coming up with a solution, they can use that to No-Hire you
Interviews and the feedback are bullshit. Google told me to "get better at coding". LOL. Who even wants to work for such toxic people.
"Not enough of demonstration of data structures knowledge" 🙄
Interviews are a stochastic process. You can only control a small part of it. The rest is a combination of luck and timing. I've interviewed many Google engineers who failed my interviews cause they couldn't code well enough or design a system. I was shocked at first but then realized that they are humans like all of us and most likely just had a bad day, or somehow managed to get into Google despite their poor abilities. Point is, don't sweat it. You'll fail many interviews in your life. Get used to it and move on.
Sometimes interviewers are bastard. If he dint like you face he wont say you are missing an edge case. And later in your feedback he would mention your coding was not up to the mark. But a good interviewer always wants you to help and come to an acceptable working solution.
In my experience Google gives 0 mid interview feedback, unless you’re suggesting that every single of my interviewers disliked me.
Juniper is right, if the first impression is bad then all they need is a some small reason to reject you