Ok fine shoot

[feral dove]

@chrome walrus I got dp on graph, hard question. I was communicative the whole time, etc. But I was able to do it suboptimally. Interviewer didnt ask for better or anything. Had like 5-10 minutes before he said you can ask me questions. I asked for any feedback, he said i could split things into diff functions. Which is all he said. He talked for like 25 minutes after exceeding his time.

What other criteria would you look at

[chrome walrus]

You’re gonna hate this answer but yeah it depends. Cuz suboptimal on one question could be L3 level if the question is a L3-5 question but for another question it could be lean no hire if it’s a L3/4 focused question

If you’re communicative that’s a good sign, splitting into different functions is more like programming criteria than algos but solving suboptimally in terms of time / space complexity would be considered in algos

Both are evaluated

[feral dove]

I am l3, i gave suboptimal for a hard dp on graph question. Like objectively. I dont know what criteria would be for l3/l4 focused question

[chrome walrus]

No what I’m saying is internally there are questions that are only L3, L3-4 or L3-5

[feral dove]

uhuh

[chrome walrus]

If it’s a question that is L3-5 then suboptimal might be still a lean hire for L3

But if it’s only L3 or L3-4 it might be a lean no hire

Again it depends on the question, Google doesn’t use lc difficulties on the question bank, only levels

[feral dove]

You're right

What do you consider suboptiumal btw. In one of my interviews, the interview said you dont need to get a optimal solution even tho I did. so Idk.

[feral dove]

Would DP on graph (lc hard) be l3 level?

like for example

[chrome walrus]

It’s hard for me to say what level it is based off the topic alone

Because each topic has dozens of questions in the bank of varying levels