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So I had google onsite a week back and I felt i performed well if not excellent. Bombed 1 interview and was not able to come up with a completely correct solution . Did good on 2 and rocked the last one as it was a LC Hard and I coded the most optimal solution. Got reject mail after 2 days of onsite. Does that mean i couldn't even make it to the HC ? My recruiter didn't mention in the mail anything regarding cool off period , should I ask regarding this or is it implicit that i need to wait 6 months - 1 year for next onsite. Feeling really bad after practicing for 2 months. Didn't practice persistent data structures and got a similar question. I think that is what bad luck is !
Was the last one a question identical to a LC hard problem? If so, the interviewer probably realized you knew the solution and didn't say anything. If this is the case, chances are you have been blacklisted
All questions are some variations of some question or the other. It was just that the technique i learnt to solve a LC hard was possible to apply on that question. Now how does that make sense to tell the interviewer that I can solve this question with the technique of a similar question i solved.
The interviewer wants to see you reasoning on the problem. Spitting out the optimal solution at the first attempt provides zero info and it becomes a strong negative once you do much worse in the other questions.
Saw your other reply. If that's the way things went, I have no idea of what happened.
What was the persistent data structures question or if u can give a hint of it?
Can't give the question away , but knowing how to achieve partial persistence for an array or linked list should be enough to solve the question.
Why do you need persistent data structure for array or linkedlist? You can always deep copy the array and do logic right?
Probably your 1st interview was a no-hire, otherwise you could be invited back for more data points.
Does Google follow the recycling of candidates very strictly?
What was your preparation like. How many leetcode questions did you solve
Solved 160 leets. 120 medium i guess .. 20 easy and 20 hard
From did you get that 160 list?
If your case had gone to hc, your recruiter would have mentioned it. Same happened with me, my recruiter said I was just at the bar, so need to apply again after 1 year for swe ladder and 6 months for non swe.
Same boat, op. Rejected from onsite without making it to the hc as well. Funny thing was each round managed to highlight one area where I could have done much better: Coding speed, edge cases and writing clean code. This was my first onsite, but showed me I have a lot to work on!
You’ll get it next time. Clean code and edge cases, along with let the interviewer know your logical thoughts are very important, regarding coding speed, you just need finish the question or possible follow up in time. I actually find phone screen could be a challenge simply because it’s a single point failure, but if you’re comfortable with leetcode medium to hard depending on your level, you should be able to get in.
@cisco, I had done about 300 lc but my mistake was not doing enough mock interviews. Coding into an ide vs talking aloud while whiteboarding threw me off!
What were the questions actually?
Sorry NDA
Yeah , want to get help without helping others..