!process Google offer

[golden cliff]

Timeline and position?

[buoyant blade]

Apply: i dont remember
General Assessment: 04/20
OA: skipped
HC: 05/09
Pass HC: 05/16
Filled out GMatch form: 05/16
TM #1 - #3: 06/06, 06/09, 06/10
Matched with Team 1: 06/11

For SDE2, Mountain View

Happy to answer any/all questions here!

[golden cliff]

How many rounds were there in HC?

[buoyant blade]

HC was 4 back-to-back rounds, three 45 min technicals and one 45 min behavioral/chatting

[golden cliff]

Thank you

how was the coding problems?

Were you able to solve all coding questions optimally ?

[buoyant blade]

coding was around LC med - med/hard

For the first two i solved optimally and then solved the follow up optimally as well

for the third i was able to solve the first question but didn't get time to solve the follow up completely. I told the interviewer my thought process, what i would do, and space/time and he seemed satisfied with it

[uncut ore]

Did you have to reach out to your recruiter after each Team Matching call? I'm also curious if the first team let u know how it went and if they wanted you? I only had one call and the team seemed little indifferent

[buoyant blade]

i didnt reach out to the recruiter directly, i had 3 teams reach out to me at once. i asked for feedback after i concluded the last one, she mentioned one of the team was very interested and that was the one i went with

[uncut ore]

Gotcha! Thanks for the info; yeah I unfortunately had 1 team matching call so I'm praying I just get matched with this team but praying for more

[golden cliff]

So in total you had 6 coding questions ?

[buoyant blade]

praying for u big dog, u got this

[buoyant blade]

it was 3 seperate questions, but each had "follow ups" based on the original

[golden cliff]

oh ok

thank @buoyant blade

[buoyant blade]

ofc jusy paying it forward

[uncut ore]

Thanks man appreciate it; hopefully catch u at Big G if you accept

[tacit sky]

How did you apply ?

Did you get referral or direct apply ?

Also, how did you prepare for the interviews ?

[proper relic]

team?

[buoyant blade]

directly applied with a referal from an employee currently working at google,

prepared by grinding blind75 and NC150

Honestly you won't get "word for word" the same questions but if you can complete those you should have a very solid base for solving the questions they would ask

hope that helped!

[buoyant blade]

google play team

i heard yt team building has the largest slide 🫡

c u around campus big man

[blazing mica]

@buoyant blade what’s your resume like

[proper relic]

ooo nice sounds interesting

[buoyant blade]

T10 LAC, one FAANG internship, a few other non-FAANG big tech SWE/MLE internships,

[plain glade]

do you have to run the code with examples? or do you just dryrun? not familiar with google's platform

[buoyant blade]

They don’t require u to run the code and the code editor is similar to a text editor

They do ask for u emm explain the code and run through some test cases verbally

[plain glade]

Basically just dry run then

[buoyant blade]

Yep

[nimble fiber]

If you don't mind me asking, how did you get sde2 offer without fte?

[shell vale]

SDE 2 is entry lvl. IDK it's SDE 2 but that's what it says on job posting

[nimble fiber]

Ah gotcha

[vast dune]

Congratulations!!!