I know Google does not/tries not to ask questions featured prominently on Leetcode, but would it be fair to say that the questions tagged as Google were most likely asked explicitly in a real Google interview at least once before being “banned”? I want to believe this is true but there are 182 easy questions tagged Google and my intuition tells me that it is unlikely a candidate was really asked “reverse a linked list” at a Google interview. Thanks.
i am not sure about rate of false positives, but all the questions i was asked, i later found them on leetcode. when i was an interviewer, my go-to question got banned by a committee member, because he said it has become well known. i have seen (easier) variants of it on leetcode.
Some of the LCs do get asked at Google. Some are variations, some are straight from Leetcode. Though you still need to complete like 200.
If everyone at a company can leetcode hard and solve problems in 40 minutes or less, why do they need so many people? Why aren't we far beyond - by orders of magnitude - from where we were 20 years ago?
Stop being alwz angry like that. Not everyone can do LC hard in 40 minutes, and certainly not after spending years at the company doing boring work. Google is by no means the hardest place to get into nor the one that will give you the most TC.
If not Google, what are the hardest places to get into?
Depends on the interviewer. I can ask any question I want and don't need to get approval for it. I'm encouraged to make sure the question isn't banned, but there are so many banned questions that I'm not going to manually look through every single one. I can do a search but it's not perfect especially if my question is a variation of a banned question and not a direct copy of it. Interviews are a mess and the sky is blue.
What’s the most difficult question you like to ask?
Yes. I was asked two questions straight out of LC. The discussion is a different beast tho. I had one interviewer who clearly just wanted the model LC answer, while another one pivoted on low-level implementation details and kept drilling on all kinds of things unrelated to the question.
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Don't forget there are phone screen questions, intern interview questions and warm up questions that could be asked at Google interviews. Not every question has to be difficult.