Here's why Google interviews suck 🤮🤮🤮🤮

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EgFk13

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EgFk13
Dec 29, 2021 920 Comments

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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  • Amazon
    EtzW50

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    EtzW50
    No question is unique. It’s your ignorance that you only prepare from leetcode lol
    Dec 29, 2021 10
  • Meta
    hi fly

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    hi fly
    Wouldn’t you be even more pissed if you cleared the interview and they lowballed and downlevel you? Better to just skip Google nowadays.
    Dec 29, 2021 9
    • Same page here. My interview went well on 4/5 interviews and I got down-leveled. That is with already having competing offers on Twitter and Amzn.

      They asked me for two more interviews to do the level match
      Jan 2
    • Meta
      kOYijT

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      kOYijT
      Lol just coz Google can’t launch a decent social media product it tries to shit on others
      Jan 2
  • Twilio / Eng
    nextZuck

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    nextZuck
    Kinda agree. I got asked an esoteric mathematical theory for the first round of my on-site a few weeks ago. That was all she wrote. Gotta work harder
    Dec 29, 2021 16
  • Wayfair
    QAFW18

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    QAFW18
    If you can memorize the top 100 LC answers for FB and make it through their interview then all that means is that FB has shit interviews. Who the fuck cares if you know the answers to the top 100 LC questions? That is a terrible indicator of if you can do the job.
    Dec 29, 2021 5
    • Financial Services Company
      stonith

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      stonith
      How is it fair? Lets say you get asked the question first time or may be you are the 15th person doesn’t matter. The question hasn’t been ranked as high freq question.

      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
      Jan 2
    • Right, you would still need luck but not as much as what's needed for G
      Jan 2
  • Snap
    šŸ‘» TC = 🄜

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    šŸ‘» TC = 🄜
    This is just wrong. People are so scared to admit its their fault lmao. There are definitely questions where you probably wont be prepared for but most should be ok
    Dec 29, 2021 8
    • Google
      yr8e6

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      yr8e6
      Nope, you need to at least do the top down with memoization and explain how you'd get to bottom up verbally (don't have to code it if you run out of time). Score depends on your thought process, communication, solution, code, etc. You can expect learn hire if you do a decent job at it
      Jan 1
    • Intuit
      xrOM13

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      xrOM13
      šŸæ
      Jan 2