Very bad Google phone screen experience...
I got rejected... Here's how it went Question 1: fizz buzz PRINT not store. Answered it straight... Question 2: fizz buzz don't use modulo or division. Also keep O(n) time complexity. Also keep constant space. I struggled a little as in I thought out loud, but got a solution (a bit different from Leetcode because LC asks to preserve the fizz buzz in an array which is easy. Google wanted to just PRINT it out). Did walkthrough. Everything within time. Feedback was 1 Took too long - I kinda understand but not really... But for 45 min I thought I did okay? Can someone shed light on this? Q1 looked like LC easy and Q2 as LC medium? 2 incorrect solution - Not true. I even ran my code after the interview. It was fine. When I put it on Leetcode and tweaked the array thing I got 97% faster than other results. 3 Needed hints - Not true...at least the South East Asian accent was so hard to hear that whatever he said only added more stress. I couldn't understand anything. Also he was very silent overall...and he seemed generally unfriendly. Overall I'm so devastated...if I were going to be rejected, I would want to deserve it...I don't think I deserved it in this case.
Interviewing is a dice roll. Getting someone who speaks the same native language and has average to above-average communication skills tends to yield better results, in my experience.
How did you get feedback? I thought they didn't give interview feedback!?
The interview game is all luck. It depends on who you get. When I interviewed there, one of my interviewers was in a big hurry to finish the interview and asked me to use Java even through I had mentioned that C++ was my preferred language. I feel that threw me off alot. In the end, it doesn't matter. Just take it as practice and keep applying. The more practice you get the better chances you have each time and the greater your confidence will be.
Shit happens. Also while some are interviewing, others keep collecting checks from their real estate investments 🤭 Don't just chase a brand.
How many deals have you done?
Definitely not at a level of FU money but you have to start somewhere I guess.
Sorry to hear that, life involves luck. It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Most interviewers don't actually know how to interview or what the real goal is as an interviewer. This person you spoke with sounds like he might be in that (IME, very large) group. Move on.
I interviewed at Google and the guy who interviewed me was an idiot. I was shocked. He actually told me "Google isn't concerned with revenue, we make happy customers and that's what counts." He was a PM too.
I wouldn’t call someone idiot for just saying that. Probably was just peddling the company line. Or had drank the kool aid
That was one of a few things he said... But I would agree, one doesn't represent many by any means
Had a similar experience during a Google phone screen. Can’t let that stop you from moving on.
It’s a pure luck game! Many times Math and Geometry problems are chosen to reject candidates! Getting a good interviewer is very lucky these days combined with those stupid recruiters it adds up to the pain. Another problem I see is people from not so busy work companies can spend all there time to practice 60-70% of leetcode questions multiple times where as someone like you from amazon will spend most of the time working ! I am not saying practicing large number of questions will fetch u a job but u have higher chances to clear a bad phone screen question!
Move on. It happens. Interview involves some luck. As I keep quoting from a blog: The thing is, Google has a well-known false negative rate, which means we sometimes turn away qualified people, because that's considered better than sometimes hiring unqualified people. This is actually an industry-wide thing, but the dial gets turned differently at different companies. At Google the false-negative rate is pretty high. I don't know what it is, but I do know a lot of smart, qualified people who've not made it through our interviews. It's a bummer. But the really important takeaway is this: if you don't get an offer, you may still be qualified to work here. So it needn't be a blow to your ego at all! As far as anyone I know can tell, false negatives are completely random, and are unrelated to your skills or qualifications.
This. Google's process is designed to reject a lot of highly qualified applicants. The thought process is that one bad hire is far worse than many rejected good candidates. As an interviewer, it is frustrating to watch great candidates walk out the door without offers. It's even worse as a candidate. Don't let it get you down. There are a ton of fantastic opportunities out there, and if you are still interested in Google next year, give it another go.