I am an ex meta intern (summer 2022). I have 2 years of experience. My google L4 technical phone screen is coming up in 4 days. I don’t know if it is because of imposter syndrome or google being my dream company to work for, i feel i am not ready for this, really lost motivation 😞 Meta didn’t offer FTE to interns this time I got offers from ebay for sde 3 (245k avg two years), amazon new grad (180k) I am afraid that google asks me really tough questions? And also thinking about cool down of 1 year. Shall i cancel the interview? Am i ready? What is googlers take on this? (Humble request to treat me like a junior) I am attaching my LC profile for reference 😬 #engineering #software #swe
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I don’t feel amazon and ebay are safe options. I have doordash, and patreon onsites coming up and canceled onsite with bloomberg
Imho, you are ready but the market may not.
But my interview got scheduled 😕
They’re still interviewing, but team matching may not happen for 4-6 months.
Chill. If you can solve most mediums under 25 minutes then you should be good
Yes i can, in my last contest i solved first 3 questions 1 easy and 2 mediums in 6 mins. And was not able to do the hard even though it’s easier side of hard and that’s the reason i am afraid of google asking me very hard questions in interviews
Algo knowledge over LC recall for Google.
Can you please explain?
You should know algorithms pretty well instead of trying to recall which LC problem they gave you. Chances are they won’t give you any LC problems, they seemed to have their own bank from my interview experience. I passed the phone and on-site by practicing just 30-40 LC problems and putting emphasis into knowing common algorithms well (merge sort, binary search, bfs, dfs, dp, etc.)
How are you interviewing for L4 as a new grad?
I have exp, but if it’s not your question, I don’t know, I applied to a position and recruiter reached out. Is it beat to not mention that still i am in college?
op is technically not really new grad
Is your 2 years of work ex in India? Did you pursue Masters after that? If so, can I DM? Had a few queries.
Yes sure
You have been selected. Congratulations.
What?
Good luck to you. Join eBay while you wait for your Google team match.
Thank you
OP, how did it go?
I would suggest to go topic wise dfs, bfs, union find , segment tree etc and you’ll be good. Don’t focus on numbers
I have like 4 days to go, i know how to implement dfs, bfs, dsu and segment trees. Shall i practice questions tagged under these topics, i did like only 3-4 questions on seg trees and dsu but i am pretty strong in recursion
You’re fine dude