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[grand hearth]

6/17 cold apply
7/15 survey + oa
7/18 interview scheduling
8/14 interview (2 techs)
8/16 project matching
10/28/2024 questionairre release
12/27/2024 2x host call request
1/7/2025 host call no.1
1/7/2025 offer no.1

[barren reef]

i was his referral actually

[elfin vortex]

🇴 🇷 🇿

[true radish]

i love you

[grand hearth]

been in this process since summer LMAO

even before c1 ended

i actually did it
i did the neetcode pipeline
c1 -> google

[errant elk]

congrats!

how were ur technicals

[grand hearth]

lc meds
with a bunch of follow ups
not too hard

[boreal matrix]

how was oa

[errant elk]

dm 🙏🏾

[true radish]

teach me how please

[grand hearth]

oa was very easy
but i think its a little rng on if u pass through it
had a friend perfect score it but reject so idrk

[true radish]

i thought cold applying google doesnt work

[boreal matrix]

u gotta write ur own test cases and stuff, so maybe thats why

[little sinew]

got google OA and then got rejected after. they probably just want a lot of test cases and comments explaining code, time comp, etc.

just how it be

congrats tho!!

[boreal matrix]

but were questions hard in ur opinion

dont u get like 90 min

[grand hearth]

LOL idk, rolled the perfect dice on that one

[little sinew]

questions were easy to med. the first one was very easy, secone was medium DP prob

probably missed some edge case in my OA

[boreal matrix]

dp?

oh dang

[little sinew]

dynamic programming

[boreal matrix]

i know what that is lol

im surprised its on an oa

[elfin vortex]

i did no test cases or comments and got next steps, but i did solve them pretty fast.

[little sinew]

luck of the draw

praying next cycle does me better

[barren reef]

it’s not luck, he impressed the interviewer by doing the interview in SQL

I would know, I was his IDE

[little sinew]

ah of course why didn't think of thqat

[barren reef]

ill let it slide this time

https://tenor.com/view/google-gif-gif-17744956708201260027

[civic void]

nice what team did u match with

[grand hearth]

compiler engineering @ google core

[civic void]

oh wowzers 😍

congrats bro

[grand hearth]

ty ty
gl on matching! we all gonna make it

[civic void]

😭 i need match

i failed 2 match calls alr

[grand hearth]

manifesting offer

[civic void]

how did the team match calls go for you

idk what im doing wrong it seems p straightforward they just explain their project and i ask hella questions on it

standard behavioral that ive been asked a million times

my second call the guy seemed hella in a rush too didnt ask any questions about me just explained the project and was like "sounds good u should hear back from your recruiter soon"

[grand hearth]

so i kinda have a niche in systems low level dev in general
the call was a really good match bc the project is very similiar to a prev project i did
so i kinda spent some time geeking over the project with them

[civic void]

ahh i see nice

[grand hearth]

my dude didnt ask much tbh
it was like 25 mins out of 30 of me just spamming questions

[civic void]

i see ty

[boreal matrix]

howd u guys prep for tech round btw

[little sinew]

oh that's cool. you had exp with compilers before or just hopped on the team?

i talked to an engineer and they were like the onboarding process is pretty thorough so you should be able to join any team even with limited exp

[grand hearth]

i had prev experience but also my manager was like that too
just expected strong cpp skills
it just works out that i have a compilers background

[spiral violet]

damn orz

[noble wagon]

idts i didn't do any of this

[spiral violet]

just pass all the test cases

generate all the test cases

[torpid elk]

@grand hearth can i dm?

[paper fable]

@grand hearth Were there any August start dates when you got the offer? Also congrats btw!!!