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I am about to attend my onsites for the L4 SWE role in India. In a couple of my earlier posts, I had asked if I could expect some difficult algorithms from the realm of competitive programming and the Googlers told me that the chances are extremely less (or not likely at all) given that coding interviews are not supposed to have problems that require algorithms from competitive programming. When I think about it, their points do make very much sense to me as you are not only expected to come up with the approach, but also code your solution and then test it. The harder the algorithm, the harder the testing would be. Also interviews are of only 40 mins, as 5 mins are reserved for interviewee's questions. And in the recent trends, I have found that even in 1 45 min interview, 2-3 questions are asked. 1 main, 1-2 follow up or 1 easy starter, 1 medium/difficult follow up. So, my question is why are Google interviews hard and why the conversion rate is very low? Is it that people are not able to build solutions intuitively or are people really messing up fundamental algorithms (like BFS, DFS, Binary Search, Recursion) in these interviews? Besides, when do I know I have covered enough breadth of topics and I am prepared? TC: 38LPA, 5 yoe
You’re assuming when people don’t get offers it’s because they messed something up or they’re lacking something but as you probably know luck plays a role too. Sometimes you just get asked a disproportionately hard question or your interviewer just doesn’t like you.
True, I am sorry if my words came off that way. I didn't intend to mean like that.
I do acknowledge the fact that luck plays a huge role.
Google interview is not as hard as you mentioned. It's more hyped than true. Sometimes, you get a bad interviewer. If your base is clear, you can answer their question. Keep your nervous calm, which is very important.
Well if everyone wants to get in, they gotta increase the bar isn't it.
Grind blind 75 and YOLO. it's just a job don't overthink
Ehh the interviews are overhyped. The questions they asked me were pretty easy. In fact both Meta and Microsoft gave me harder interviews that were full of LC hards - did not pass both. Google was LC medium on the easier end.
It had better be very hard in India 🇮🇳
Not sure how it can be hard cause it's a very undesirable company. They aren't worth extra effort to prep for. I haven't even applied to Google in my career due to bad pay, perception that I'm wasting my time, and very long team match process (wasting time!). Also their tech doesn't excite me. Its all 3rd rate products other than the legacy 20 year old systems
Because it’s the people who are stuck in their mentality that they worked so hard on their algorithms to get through and so it should be equally hard to others too. No way related to their work quality.
Not saying this is the bar, but take a look at LeetCode contests where the top places typically finishes the contest (1 easy, 2 mediums, 1 hard) in 15 mins. And for even harder, look at CodeForces where the problems are far harder than anything on LeetCode. It is possible to be much faster than what Google asks of you. At the end of the day, it's supply and demand of candidates with DSA skills.
People wonder if any of the skills you mentioned above is even required for our day to day work. Forget requirement, does it say anything about the candidate skill set ?
Why obsession with google never ends??
Help people bro, don't taunt/belittle
Be ready to get hire and fire (layoff) 😂