Google L4 interview performance

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Mar 23 9 Comments

Just wrapped up and L4 loop for SWE

All 4 technical rounds were pretty similar. I was able to spot the optimal solution within a few minutes, asked a few clarifications about assumed input and output, asked if we should discuss better solutions and all said no just implement the one I said.

I implemented them all, but on most there was an edge case or two I didn’t capture correctly which we discussed. On one I got the wrong time complexity and couldn’t get the right form.

They all seemed to generally like me and enjoy the conversation, I was trying to keep them engaged.

The Googleyness interview went pretty well, maybe a 4/5 overall. I had good answers for all but I didn’t necessarily phrase them all well

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  • Amazon
    IGyt55

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    Update: moving on to HC. Thanks for the support :)
    Mar 25 0
  • New
    zTwY23

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    zTwY23
    Can you give some over view on your preparation and what helped ? I have mine scheduled next week :)
    Mar 23 2
    • Amazon
      IGyt55

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      IGyt55
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      A lot of leet code for the technical

      For Google I just wrote a bullet point list of important moments in my career, and tried to think of 2 or 3 stories to tell about each. This gave me around ~20 stories to reference, which was plenty to cover any question they had
      Mar 23
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      zTwY23

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      zTwY23
      Thanks!!
      Mar 23
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    BrazilBe🍑

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    BrazilBe🍑
    Good luck. Sounds like you did good.
    Mar 23 0
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    • Amazon
      IGyt55

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      Steps I would focus on are

      1. Identifying what the problem “looks like” (bfs, recursive, etc)
      2. Identifying the ways that it’s different from the out of the box solution
      3 communicating all that info
      4. Implementing
      Mar 23
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      IGyt55

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      But also maybe I failed so 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️
      Mar 23
  • Getting the right time complexity and edge cases are super critical. Though it seems tough, I hope you make it.
    Mar 23 0