Have a Google interview scheduled. Sorted Google tagged questions on LC, both for 6 months and 1 year, and I see a lot of hard tagged questions. Wondering if their frequencies is skewed by senior candidates experience or if they are likely to happen to new grads as well. Should I do each question from the most frequent to the least frequent (MFTL) no matter the difficulty, or go MFTL skipping a hard one here and there, or skip most of hards. Please vote only if you know this directly (like you interview there or have interviewed there as new grad (or know somebody who did)). #LC
Actually In my experience new grads are asked the toughest LC questions, when you become more experienced your interviewers become more experienced themselves and they dont ask that hard questions and they ask you subject matter knowledge and even if you mess a round or two they downlevel you but for new grads LC is the only way to test them and they cant be downlevelled. TLDR New grads/low yoe have the toughest LC portion of interviews as that is the only way to test them.
Subject matter knowledge like? Curious what I might have to know in the future haha
Those are domain knowledge rounds and also a system design round. Someone I knew was asked about OS specific things as he had experience in embedded stuff, if you for eg are working on C++ library they will bring you an expert to aks that, you are working on say DB storage layers they will bring someone to ask you that.
Any question that's tagged google online is typically added to banned question list and most interviewers will not ask them. So learn your fundamentals and practice a lot of questions and learn the patterns and algorithms but always expect a question that you have never seen before in the interview.
For which location? New grad in US has openings?
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The recommended strategy from a lot of Google engineers is to review based on topics, since a large portion of Google hards can’t be found on LeetCode anymore.
go by topics and not by Google tag? mmm This is actually what I've done so far, but now I was thinking of tailoring my prep
It wouldn’t hurt to go through the frequently asked if your fundamentals are solid, go for it!