L4 Google Interview SWE

Amazon / Eng
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Done with a complete loop of interview with 4 coding and 1 Behavioral.

Round 1: (Googliness) Asked a lot of hypothetical questions and round went pretty well. (Expecting a H or SH)

Round 2: (Coding) introduction + 1 code. Explained them the approach and coded the approach. Explaining took some time. Finished coding rite in time. No time for follow ups (Expecting a LH or H)

Round 3: (Coding) 3 code and still had 3 min. 1st one a verbal explanation. 2nd was a follow up of the first and finished with coding in time and explained them the logic. 3rd was a completely different question and coded as well. This round went pretty well (Expecting SH or H)

Round 4: (Coding) 1 code and optimized it. Asked me to trace an input. And also asked me to trace an edge case and realized I missed a condition. Added that condition without any help. Asked me why I used this approach and explained him. Asked me a follow up at scale level and answered that as well. Still had time and had some casual conversation. (Expecting SH or H)

Round 5: (Coding) 1 code provided an optimized solution. Started writing the code in an optimized way but he asked me to write the simpler code. Had explained him the approach with DFS and he asked me about BFS , differences between them and the complexities. Started coding but ended up coding in bfs. Interviewer asked me why I am coding in BFS when I initially told him about DFS. (I thought since we discussed both bfs and dfs and the complexities are similar it wouldn’t make any difference) But later he asked me to code in whatever I am comfortable with. Finished coding and tracing right on time. There was a small bug which he pointed but immediately changed without any help. (Expecting H or LH or worst case LNH)

Folks , any thoughts? Would it be a reject? Or can I expect additional interview?

This is my third time interviewing with them. Each time I have performed better than previous time. Also this time I have experience with Amazon.

YOE : 5 years

TC ~280

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