Any Google interviewers here?
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 #google #interview
I had phone screening few days ago and it was LC BFS medium.
Thanks! Was it just one question? And was it just purely technical or were there some behavioral questions?
Purely technical and one question. And then follow up on the same question. Added some more constraints on it.
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.
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.
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).
This is very accurate
But what types of questions interviewer's prefer ??