Be honest. Be confident
Practice with a buddy. You want to get used to explaining your thought process.
Solve 100+ leetcode. Develop practice of doing problem step by step by hand. Don’t jump steps, see the complexity and if it’s slower, try to see which step is taking longer and optimize it. Create a list of of different types (it’s about 12 to 15) of problems. If option above doesn’t work, try to see if one of these type seem more appealing. DFS BFS In order Preorder Post order Priority queue Sort Binary search Two pointer Divide and conquer DP Trie Union Find Greedy Heap Line Sweep
What you mean by line sweep?
Line sweep algorithm used in geometry. Some tasks can be pretty hard without knowing it
Trees, bfs, dfs, game problems to focus on more of course they love DP
Leetcode, sadly! Ask your recruiter to send you the Google prep guide
I have had google recruiters send me interviewCake in past. Is that better?
Unnecessary.
My advice is to NOT spend too much time on hard problems, but rather to quickly solve easier ones and prepare for escalation. That is the trick in Google interviews. You’ll get a problem and you’ll be surprised to find it’s rather easy. Little do you know, the intent is to extend that problem into others (mainly to test your scaling abilities). If you take more than, say, 10 minutes to solve that first problem, then you’re in trouble. The interviewer won’t let you know that, the pressure is off and they will make the rest of it easy because you’re already a no to neutral hire. You might get away with it once. Do that in another round and you’ve failed.
Is it based on personal experience?
This is spot on
You can solve 700 problems and still come across a problem that you are unable to solve. Even worse just because you have solved those 700 problems didn't guarantee that you will able to solve them again in a phone interview. You need to review regularly. I had way better luck with Interview Cake because of the breadth and better quality of solutions compared to leetcode. It's expensive but I bought it at a discount on ebay https://www.ebay.com/itm/153143222043 Was enough to get offers from LinkedIn, Google, oracle and a couple of startups.
What level?
L5
Stop wasting time on Blind and do your leets.
I’m so tired of reading that bullshit. Find a nee response. How about you actually provide real direction?
Sure: 1. Go to www.leetcode.com 2. Get premium sub, or if you're cheap ask a friend for step 3 3. Filter questions by Google and sort by frequency 4. Solve as many problems as you can until the interview, ideally around 100 - 300+ covering graphs, recursion / dp, trees, and combinatorics. So basically, do your leets. It's not that f'ing complicated.