R0 : Behavioural (Aced it) R1 : delete even nodes from circular Linked List (Made mistakes but eventually solved it, many hints taken), swap nodes in pairs (did it with my eyes closed 😎) R2 : Given a list of cards find the biggest straight in the cards (Interviewer was clumsy, her laptop lost charge and it took her 15-20 minutes to get started, I gave an unoptimized solution and then with a hint got to the optimal solution) R3 : Design A Typeahead system (Luckily had studied it on Educative did my best here) R4 : Build a MST, follow up built it without sorting the edges (Completely bombed 😫😵💫) TC : 168k CAD YOE : 7.5 #engineering #software #swe #google #faang #interview #sde #L5
Sounds like the typical loop: H in G&L, NH in all technical rounds.
I think I did okay on the 2 coding rounds, does it still count as NH?
I think since you taken hints but solved it optimally the 2 coding can be hire for L4
This sounds like a no hire. Cant take hints as L5 and maybe if you had a redeeming coding round you would get extra interviews or downlevel. Sorry but I would say its a flat out reject
Oh! I see.
Google skews towards high performance vs avg. For example its better to get 2 strong hires and 2 no hires vs 4 lean hires. I could be wrong and you did better in the interviews than you think! If so good luck on additional rounds
What is an MST? Will you follow up and let us know the final decision?
Minimum Spanning Tree
Guess I’m not ready for my Google interview yet😅 just pushed it back a month but I don’t think I’ll ever be ready for Google
Who the hell is building an MST in 30 mins at work ? This is such a ridiculous process.
With you on that one brother! I didn't remember the algo, it took me 10 mins to remember it. I implemented one which wasn't what the interviewer wanted, he was probably expecting me to solve it using union find so that we could avoid sorting.
Or MST wasn’t the recommended solution for the problem but OP could only come up with that 🙄
uhh didn't you sign an NDA
No
They not afraid of NDAs
swap nodes in pairs ? Was the ask to swap data or swap links??
Swap Links
Any update OP ?
The feedback is as expected. But my recruiter said she'll try presenting my case as an L4 and try her luck. Still haven't heard back from her yet
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@LC@Work Just prepare for it like you would a Ph.D. qualifying exam. Study your ass off for three months. Read the Introduction to Algorithms and memorize everything, including time and space complexities for various methods. Know the most efficient data structures for various types of problems. Then, knock those interviews out of the park. I hate leetcoding as a barrier for hiring. It's a terrible measure of someone's capability, as I've mentioned in other posts. I think it's a waste of time, especially if you've pushed production code that's used in a CMMI5 organization where lives are at risk if something goes wrong, have a well-established GitHub repository with our code, and so forth. But, right now it's part of the game. You might as well be good at playing the game and put yourself in the best position possible to negotiate. Eventually, someone will get the bright idea that leetcoding and brain teasers are terrible and move on to something else that will, hopefully, be better.