Anyone recently interviewed with Google for their SETI role, please share your experiences. What is the general interview difficulty level? What type of questions are expected? Thanks in advance!
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I did, but im not telling :P. What level r u targeting ? Edit : here is my 7 year experience interview from 1 w ago had SETI interview recently. 3 type of questions asked: - Systems design(2) - Systems testing(1) - Leetcode hard questions (6) For systems testing think : "how would you test Google Keep / Google Docs / Google Play / Google Search / Google Photos / Google Drive / etc ..." For systems design : Standard systems design questions. Design a system for storing files for users, Design a phone book system for USA, Design Google Play Search / Design Google Docs. My warning here is that that most interviewers are preety bad at asking these types of questions so it becomes more of a mind reading problem where you need to figure out what they want to hear as opposed to doing good system design. So even if you get asked "Design twitter" and you're actually the guy that did design Twitter and you say exactly how it's designed IRL, the interviewer can not be happy because they wanted a more academic vs practical approach or they had different assumptions / wanted less detail / wanted more detail on specific area, wanted to start simple then scale up, wanted you to address testability too ... etc. This has happened to me with about 50% hit rate .. getting a bad interviewer like this... Also happened @the Google interview. LeetCode Hard: No graph questions, Only 1/6 question was straight out off LeetCode, rest I can't find online. And yes I said 6!! You're expected to understand + have fully working code + answer follow up's(complexity, testing, etc..) in 25-30 min / Leetcode hard question. All of the questions were the type where you think it's easy to solve but then the implementation has lots of corner cases and you can easily mess up the details. I didn't get any questions where you need to do lots of thinking to figure out correct approach / etc. Ex of types of q asked: LRU Cache, Scramble String, Text Justification, Insert Interval ... etc (So basically easy on the surface, but then when you write the implementation and try to run it you see you have 5 bugs and don't treat 7 corner cases). Ex of q not asked: Split Array Largest Sum, All O'one Data Structure, Strong Password Checker, Trapping rain watter, N-Queens, Minimum Window Substring, etc ... (these are all questions where you have to think a lot to come up with an approach, I wouldn't say I got any of these, 2/6 were kind of leaning in this direction, but they weren't as intense as the ones listed). For the coding q you can choose whiteboard or chromebook (notepad) - most interviewers prefer you using chromebook, but you should ask. I interviewed for T4, that may be the reason for no think-intensive questions. Friend interviewed for T5 SWE and got all graph questions. Personally I find his graph questions easier than most of my questions. His graph questions were more targeting good solution design rather than tripping you up in implementation details / edge cases / using correct indexes ... etc.
The recruiter has not mentioned level yet. I guess it would be something corresponding to SDE 2 in google’s hierarchy.
how many years exp u have ? what campus ?