In total I had 6 technical rounds.
Aced 3/6 rounds and completely flunked 3/3 rounds..
The ones I aced had simple Bfs, sorting/set, heap, backtracking.
LC easy-medium I would say.
The ones I flunked had greedy+DP(2 of them), and one had a trick related to time complexity.
All questions are unique and not on LC enough. What pisses me off is the amount of variation each round at Google has.
Unlike FB, Google doesn't ask verbatim LC questions. At least at FB I can memorize top 100 questions and get through.
With Google I am at the mercy of the interview. If you saying practice makes someone perfect then you are wrong on all fronts. Practice just prepares you for algorithms and variations of problems you have already seen. In hope that you will encounter a Similar question.
But try it out with greedy, dp, trick based questions. You all will pee in your pants.
If everyone could just practice and ace interviews then the whole world would have been at Google. Clearly that's not the case. Which means those that got through were a bunch of lucky kids or the ones that have been doing competitive programming since 12 (Russian coders).
PS - don't give the BS of pattern matching bla bla. You can't do shit if it's a greedy problem. Greedy+DP problem is all about thinking capabilities unlike your generic BFS/DFS algorithms.
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They asked me for two more interviews to do the level match
In my phone interview with FB, i got a question that i saw many months later that it ranked as very low freq medium on LC, so you never seen it u less you looked at the 700 questions altogether.
Fb is easier but not fair