!process Google final

[spice creek]

how long out did u schedule it"?

[distant furnace]

How many rounds do you have?

[steep raven]

I finished it today actually

4 rounds, 1 had to reschedule

[distant furnace]

OHH, thats nice...how'd it go?

[distant furnace]

so, 3 tech and 1 googlyness?

[zinc bough]

how u prep @steep raven

[distant furnace]

also do they have 1 question in a round or 2?

[steep raven]

Googlyness was chill
1st tech was string parsing stuff, wrote brute force first, missed a small edge case, and then optimized it
2nd tech was priority queue, I first solved it using sorting, then optimized with pq

[steep raven]

NeetCode 150

[steep raven]

2, main question and optimization follow up

I’m thinking all three H but we shall see

[distant furnace]

Thanks for the insights, judging by what you mentioned above, i think you did pretty well!
I hope you do get the offer

All the best

[steep raven]

Still got one more to reschedule

But thanks my g

[distant furnace]

Oh so you had 2 rounds today and 1 technical is to be scheduled

[steep raven]

2 techs and Googlyness today

1 tech to be rescheduled

[distant furnace]

ahh i see so usually the have the full loop in a day. i thought maybe it was spread over days

[echo hamlet]

Were the question all LC medium or do they ask hard as well?

[merry shuttle]

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[distant furnace]

Was it google tagged lc or neetcode questions or completely diff?

[steep raven]

They ask hard as well, I think I got lucky 😅

[steep raven]

Completely different, but doing nc150 will help understand concepts

[distant furnace]

Ohh did you do every topic from neetcode? I feel like 2D Dp bit manipulation math and geometry are less likely to come up

[steep raven]

i mean I did those as general prep but yea u right they don't usually show up

[distant furnace]

Did you do google tagged or just neetcode 150 and it went well with just that as it helped you understand concepts

[spice creek]

like how far out from like when they requested ur availability did u have ur interview?

[steep raven]

they asked for availability two weeks ago, I scheduled it today in the interest of tryna finish it earlier

[spice creek]

ah that makes sense

[smoky shell]

Was it the group meeting before scheduling?

[steep raven]

wasn't a group meeting for me, just a direct call with recruiter

[steep raven]

NeetCode 150 and a few other random leetcode problems for prep, then leetcode discuss problems like 1-2 days before interview

pretty decent with DP and graphs from algos classes so just prepped data structures mostly like heaps, tries, etc

[smoky shell]

did you find lc discuss to help? i find alot of those are based in india and often times harder than asked here

[steep raven]

tbh you never know abt difficulty cuz someone I know got Tetris as one of their qs 😄 but I still found them good for prep

like lowk for my remaining tech, I could just get a demonic question

[smoky shell]

yea huge rng, pray to the rng gods

[steep raven]

Imma just prep more cuz 100% the RNG luck well dried out with these two

[subtle gull]

by string parsing do u just mean like string leetcode questions?

[steep raven]

not like leetcode at all

it was a unique question that i've never seen

but it involved string parsing

[vagrant whale]

Hey @steep raven what concept did the string parsing question cover? I have a phone screen coming up, I am mostly focusing on trees and graphs with some NC 150 on other common data structures. Would appreciate any tips, thanks!

[steep raven]

I used hashsets to store parsed halfs of the strings for some operations, can't reveal much more cuz NDA, but the stuff ur preparing is pretty much what I did

[vagrant whale]

Okay, sounds good. Thanks for the info!

[steep raven]

Just finished this as well, pretty straightforward backtracking question about matrix paths, solved main q and follow up and discussed memoization at the end