Google On-Site Interview in a Week
I have my Google on-site next week and I have been preparing at least 2-3 hours a day (4-7 on weekends) for at least 5 - 7 days a week for the past 3 months. I've had days where I am effortlessly solving Leetcode mediums and then I have days where I forget how to write a loop (not literally, but you know what I mean). How should I spend this last week before my interview? Should I pound out more Leetcode problems, should I step away from my computer and just trust that I'm prepared, or should I do a combination of both (do some easy problems to build confidence for an hour or so a day)? Update: Packet is going to HC!
Dynamic programming
Good luck. I’m in the same boat but have way less time to study heh
I see all hw guys here...are you switching from hw to sw ?
Firmware?
Nope
Intel has a big software group.
The day or two before I wouldn’t do any computer work at all.. otherwise study on
Just recently passed the onsite. Do problems aloud and code the solution on a whiteboard. Explain all of your thinking (even the most basic, if a problem can be represented as a tree, explicitly state that as well as what direction the edges are going, etc.) and mention alternative solutions for optimizing time or space complexity. If you can do this for most of your problems while staying positive and within 40 minutes you should be golden. Another tip: watch TechLead's videos on Google
Thank you! This was really helpful!
Np, you've done the hard technical practice, so I'd say focus on the being someone they'd want to work with part. Remember to have technical and leadership stories that you can have a conversation about for 5-10 minutes as well.
How was your phone screen interview? What kind of problem did they ask? Wish you the best of luck dude, keep us posted
I mean... What are you applying for? Are you a sales person, I swear to God... Oh I mean, assuming you're technical, the answer is (always) - did you turn it off and on again?
it crowd ftw 😄😄
Sounds like you need to beat it and relax.
Im about to take my phone screen tomorrow any last minute tips? I was thinking of doing just doing a bunch of tree problems.
I don't think isolating one type of problem is going to help THAT much unless you know you struggle with Tree problems. I'd suggest just doing some problems but writing the code in a google doc. Configure your indents, remove auto-capitalization, etc.
Thanks alot best of luck on the onsite. Im basically treating my phone screen as equivalent as an onsite so I did a bunch of backtracking, recursion, top down dp problems and now real quick doing graphs/union find. Im probably way overprepping tbh. I'll do the google doc stuff and just do some random LC problems and pray for the best.