Initial comp was great; refreshes are harder to get and you have no leverage
Very fragmented; too many product areas; lots of bureaucracy.
What should one prep for google interview in terms of advanced algorithms and ds? Anyone can recommend a list of "should know" knowledge? Failed Google on-site recently. Got asked a question related to segment tree. Yoe 3, tc: shit
Have google phone interview in couple of weeks. The invite email said to brush up on “advanced algorithm”. Any advice on what to focus upon. Thanks
I heard some people say that none of the algorithms published at conferences like nips/icml/colt etc are actually used in production since they're all impractical for many reasons. I would like to work on algorithms (be it of ML kind or other kinds) at Google and I'm wondering if a PhD in theoretic...Read more
Title says it all. My impression is that Google is more DP and graph focused.
Very limited time left before my first round, other then to build ds on a whiteboard, and classic 2 sum challenge, I am total newbie. Left less than a week. Please share what to focus on first at least to have a chance! Thanks everyone!
YouTube and YouTube Shorts genuinely have some of the worst content suggestion algorithms I've ever seen. I get video suggestions with 0 views, from random people in Pakistan. YouTube Shorts is completely random past the first video. No matter how many times I give feedback that I don't like the co...Read more
It’s impossible to find anything. Google’s whole mission is organizing the world’s information and on YouTube you’re ambushed with a bunch of irrelevant information you aren’t looking for and the filters are barely helpful. Can the SDEs who did this revert it back to what was useful for browsing? TY...Read more
Recruiter says “up to 5 Software Engineers” not sure if this counts lunch. Beside that, I heard there is a non-algorithm coding round, not system design but similar to bug-fixing or code review. Is that true? Could it be dependent on the role? Role: very generic SWE (no level has ever been mentione...Read more
There is a rumor that we love to taunt technical interviewees with unrealistically insane problems requiring advanced data structures at the ICPC or Codeforces/Topcoder level. This is false. Most of the questions asked for SWE candidates are only LC medium level, if you can trust our internal poll ...Read more
I was driving from 714 65th St, Brooklyn, NY 11220 to somewhere in downtown Brooklyn around 21 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205 and Google Maps took me round to the Brooklyn bridge, to downtown Manhattan then back to Brooklyn bridge to my destination in downtown Brooklyn. I was also an idiot not pa...Read more
I know propaganda, and, I know ML. Google is doing both - their algos are automated, and, fucked up. Woke videos lightly spread across the news feed - it's pretty obvious they promote shit for no other but ideological reasons. https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-despite-googles-denials-it-does-ma...Read more
I came to know that there is an option to skip the system design round completely and instead have another algorithm round. Is that a good idea? Would that affect my level if I clear the interviews? Reason for skipping: I don't have a background in system design but I have read Grokking system desig...Read more
Whether an Android management position at Google requires an interview algorithm? #google #android
Recently had an onsite interview at Google. During a question I was talking out loud about potential approaches and mentioned something like “even if we sorted it first we know that we can’t do better than O(nlogn).” The interviewer stopped me and asked why not, and I said because we have to do a co...Read more
I just finished my virtual on site with Google today and I got 4 algorithm interviews with a behavioral even though I was supposed to get a system design one since it's an L5 position. The recruiter called me later in the afternoon and apologized for the mistake. That I need a system design one. I...Read more
In regards to antitrust laws.
For example, if you have a tough problem at Google, and you come up with an O(n log n) or O(n²) solution. Can you at this point, post it somewhere inside of Google, to see if other people can come up with a O(n) or O(n log n) solution? (or maybe post it like a LeetCode problem inside of Google wit...Read more
I have love/hate opinion on Musk. Sometimes he is a jerk. Ignoring my opinion, what Twitter did is much appreciable. Open sourcing code base will allow neutral third party acid test. This put so much burden on Google, Meta, etc. Blind has a tunnel vision on Musk. He is doing what other Tech CEOs u...Read more
I keep hearing about having tests at the end to validate your algorithm at the end of a coding round. But I have found in the past that just getting the right implementation and then walking through it with an example input is sufficient. People are making it sound like they literally write unit t...Read more