Google Staff SWE interview process

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May 26, 2021 6 Comments

Thinking of starting to spend some time prepping for interviews. Looking for inputs on recent experiences on the process for staff software engineer interviews at Google.

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  • Oracle
    cxdr

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    cxdr
    Only thing Google cares about is LC. Nothing else. They want LC robots. For heck of it they will have system design and behavioral interviews but all boils down to LC. BTW I was asked LC hard in behavioral too and Interviewer refused to ack that it is a behavioral round. Just mug up all Google tagged questions in LC.
    May 26, 2021 4
    • Oracle
      cxdr

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      cxdr
      This was some time back and recruiter mentioned they are introducing behavioral/leadership as a new interview. And I was asked no behavioral but LC hard. And all questions were direct lift from LC and tagged Google. FB is more of LC coding monkey. Both interview process are totally busted. I am not sure what signals you get doing Dfs, dijkstra, topological sort etc. If you neednthem, you can read and code. Also for staff you have to ace all coding round. Absolutely know it before hand, pretend you don't and solve it in 3 different ways. My interviews went just okay as I didn't know the questions before and was law balled. So just do LC. That's it. Nobody cares about anything else as long as you can solve it in most optimized way. So using java streams and advance feature will only count if you solved the question.
      May 26, 2021
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      cxdr

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      cxdr
      BTW I should mention. Some of the best recruiters I have worked with are from G and FB. At least my experience has always been fantastic. So that is really nice. FB recruiters are even better than G. But that might be because I came very close or was lawballed.
      May 26, 2021
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    jassiAndy

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    jassiAndy
    What level at amazon l7?
    May 26, 2021 0