!process google additional round

[limber crane]

interview feedback was borderline hire, but needed another positive signal to confirm hire

[small tangle]

How many rounds of interviews did you attend?

[limber crane]

did 4 rounds (1 Googlyness and 3 techs)

[spark karma]

when was ur vo?

[limber crane]

4/14

(3 rounds happened on that day, the 4th one happened on 4/18)

[junior moss]

What were the coding questions like?

[spark karma]

how would u self rank ur techs

[limber crane]

backtrack, heap, and simple hashmap were the three i had

[limber crane]

LH/LNH, H, SH for the three techs

and H for the Googlyness

[spark karma]

what happened in the lh and lnh?

[limber crane]

got stuck at how to optimize and exhausted a lot of hints, also missed a few important base cases

[spark karma]

good luck on the 4th tech clutch up

[limber crane]

i believe that if I cook on this one, I should be good

bc they did not reject me

[spark karma]

cook no leftovers

[limber crane]

also the LH/LNH was like

my first ever technical interview

so nerves were there

[small tangle]

Did you have ood or system design?

[limber crane]

nope, new grad is just 3 LC type

[small tangle]

Did the interviewer ask questions about the resume or project, or just go straight to coding?

[limber crane]

nah it was just basic intros and then straight to coding

they leave u 5 min at the end of the interview to ask other questions

[small tangle]

did you have phone screen interview?

[limber crane]

nah, OA straight to VO

also for those who are gonna ask timeline:
10/15 apply (w/ ref)
3/31 OA
4/1 rec reach out
4/2 scheduled VO
4/14 VO (1 bq + 2 coding)
4/18 3rd coding round
5/7 HC requested additional round
5/12 additional round (1 coding)

[small tangle]

What were the BQ questions like?

[floral glacier]

are you perhaps related to sbhag2

[junior moss]

What was the question. If you remember?

[limber crane]

don't remember the exact question (it was a month ago lmao) but the optimization was just using a simple hashmap, i kinda overcomplicated it but after heavy hints I realized the opt sol and coded it

[limber crane]

nah who dat

[cursive mortar]

Did you recruiter tell you these rating?

[limber crane]

nah these are assumptions

def could been worse/better

[crude relic]

after a month they requested another round?

[limber crane]

yep

[crude relic]

GL bud!

[inland delta]

now im wondering if the followup was way harder than the original question

[limber crane]

i mean it prolly wasn't that hard (i don't really remember the question so idk) but i do remember that I overcomplicated it and realized that I did after the hints provided

[inland delta]

you think i can clutch up these interviews with most of neetcode150 at this point😭

[limber crane]

yea def

that was the only trip-up i had in the VO tbh

because that round was the first time i actually did a technical interview

[floral glacier]

so ur saying it was easy nice

[limber crane]

like tbh now that I have the VO experience i'm not sweating that much abt this round

just gotta stay locked in during the interview

[limber crane]

standard STAR questions

[inland delta]

any what ifs or scenario questions?

[limber crane]

Prolly shd prepare for them tbh, but I didn’t get any