Question for Google interviewers only

Jul 21, 2021 36 Comments

Is there a policy restricting you from asking Leetcode questions?
If yes, where do you go to search for innovative questions?
If not, why don't you ask LC questions?
#interview #Google #leetcode #engineering #software #swe

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TOP 36 Comments
  • Google
    automo

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    automo
    Yes and questions on Leetcode are banned. We have our own internally repository of questions and whenever they are posted online, they get banned. Questions will sometimes have similarities with Leetcode questions but we expect them to be sufficiently different for them to be used.
    Jul 21, 2021 6
    • Apple / Admin
      AOHN30

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      AOHN30
      Agreed with @een, it’s not just what you do but how you do it.
      Jul 21, 2021
    • New
      flif-flee

      New

      flif-flee
      just curious.. how often do you guys rotate them, what if someone downloads all the questions and post'em on the internet.
      Jul 21, 2021
  • Google
    swagholder

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    swagholder
    Questions leaked to the public and known to be asked by google are sought out and get banned. People still sometimes ask them anyway, it’s not a strict policy. But positive feedback from those rounds would likely get discounted by HC
    Jul 21, 2021 2
    • OP
      How is it candidates mistake if the interviewer asked a question that he/she wasn't supposed to ask? Why should HC discount the positive feedback for a candidate when they performed well? This is stupidity.
      Jul 21, 2021
    • Google / Eng
      renegehood

      Go to company page Google Eng

      renegehood
      It's not the candidate's mistake. But Google is okay with false negatives because the interview/hiring process is meant to avoid false positives. You can get unlucky and not get an offer, and that's by design. Precision over recall.
      Jul 21, 2021
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    • Amazon
      Lbfb36

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      Lbfb36
      I guess the later but it was to do with the guys current work as in it was something that could be added to or already in Tensorflow (I was not interviewing for ML role).
      Jul 21, 2021
    • Amazon
      Werdn4

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      Werdn4
      @Amazon I work on AWS core team (you may too) but your wrong about GCP being just like Oracle. For many AWS services GCP equivalent out performs AWS. It is just a first mover advantage and AWS being a more mature product.
      Jul 21, 2021
  • New
    VvBC33

    New

    VvBC33
    Now the question is: what’s the likelihood of googler to fail their own interview. Let’s call it a social experiment
    Jul 21, 2021 2
    • It's a well known that there's only a fifty percent chance they won't pass.
      Hence multiple tries.
      Jul 21, 2021
    • Amazon
      fWiX20

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      fWiX20
      Of course it's high. The point of an interview is not to accurately assess a candidate, it's to remove bad hires which is way worse. The interview is designed to prioritze eliminating false positives at the cost of a lot of false negatives.
      Jul 21, 2021
  • SAP / Eng
    qpalzmwow

    Go to company page SAP Eng

    PRE
    Siemens
    qpalzmwow
    They asked me LC tagged questions
    Jul 21, 2021 6