Any Google interviewers here?

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zRxX14

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zRxX14
Mar 14, 2021 11 Comments

I'm wondering what sort of questions do you guys generally ask? I have 1 YOE applying for L3, and I have my first phone interview coming up.

Do you ask dynamic programming questions? Or is it just your standard arrays, trees/recursion, graphs, etc.?

Are the interviews any easier / harder due to all on-sites now being video calls?

Is it mostly Leetcode Mediums or Hards? What would be some data structures that are asked more frequently than others?

Do you need all "Hires" from every interviewer to get the job? Or can one interview go "meh" and you still have a shot?

Thanks! Applying for Google Cloud btw

LC: 17LPA

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  • Twitter
    282jdn

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    282jdn
    google has a larger percentage of interviewers who take pride in testing out if you are "smart". it's usually medium hard with a layer of abstraction (fb gives direct problems, you need to peel a layer of onion to find the problem type with google) unless you get lucky with only mature interviewers. the harder part with google is how they evaluate, your negatives if they show in more than 1 interview you are Kaput, if you show different negatives in different interviews Kaput.. easy to get a lean no hire basically so thin margin for errors. (i failed multiple times and now work at Google).
    Mar 14, 2021 5
    • New / Eng
      UncleBoobs

      New Eng

      UncleBoobs
      Awesome thanks 😃
      Mar 14, 2021
    • Amazon / Eng
      f7rKf633pQ

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      f7rKf633pQ
      All my questions in google interview were straight forward. One was literally binary search, find a number in a sorted array. Another was median of stream.

      Amazon on the otherhand reworded everything to sound like an amazon problem. (Meeting rooms but reworded as AWS servers running simultaneously)

      Agree with FB though. All problems were word for word same as LC.
      Mar 14, 2021
  • Google
    tpiK18

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    tpiK18
    Typically leetcode medium/hard style problems. Worth noting that just because the question is easy or hard doesn’t mean it’s any easier or harder to pass—you’re still being evaluated against a bar set by other candidates. One of my colleagues asks exclusively leetcode easy problems, but his hire/no hire distribution is the same as everyone else’s.
    Mar 14, 2021 0
  • Amazon / Eng
    LioneMessi

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    LioneMessi
    I had phone screening few days ago and it was LC BFS medium.
    Mar 14, 2021 2
  • T-Mobile
    FANG🙄🐶

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    FANG🙄🐶
    I was in your shoes 2 years ago. Eventually you wont know what they will ask. Super vague. Took a lot of time to figure out what they actually wanted.
    Mar 14, 2021 0