!process has anyone cleared google

[jagged harbor]

dm me

or ask here, whatever

I prefer answering here so if anyone wants to know anything, they can find it here

[distant pendant]

hey, how were your 2 rounds of interviewing? did they ask behavioural or only coding, and if you have recs to study that'd be great 🙂

[waxen echo]

just wanted to know how fast did you hear back, since both my interviews went well

And is there a team matching after this ?

[waxen echo]

No behaviourial, purely coding with some followups

both my questions were graph mediums, so practice graphs I would say

[opaque basin]

What problems were they if you don't mind?

[tranquil gull]

How long did it take to hear back after OA?

[gritty solstice]

this is super variable, could be up to a week sometimes

for me it was next day

[waxen echo]

same

less than 24 hrs fs

[gritty solstice]

damn every1 getting graph problems

i guess i need to grind those

[waxen echo]

I interviewed for the MS postion btw not BS since I am a grad
Dont know if that helps

[tranquil gull]

Hope it varies. Took it 2 days ago no answer back yet

[opaque basin]

Do you think the grad one is harder?

[gritty solstice]

@waxen echo do yk if it matters if i schedule the interviews minimum week and a half from now? I need to pickup the practice again. I've heard matching is in dec usually

[waxen echo]

No I dont think so, the questions were similar to the BS ones who gave interview before me

[waxen echo]

I scheduled exactly 1 week later, I think 1.5 should be fine too.

[gritty solstice]

mhm ok, thanks

that's what ppl say but like for other companies i'd usually schedule ASAP

google is diff from what i understand

[waxen echo]

They have a lot of open positions and we are quite early in the cycle

Max it would affect it not getting the preferred location

[opaque basin]

Do you think leetcode 150 is enough?

[waxen echo]

Apart from that shouldnt affect

[tranquil gull]

Did u always get follow up qs for each q

[waxen echo]

Yeah, as long as you can recognize the patterns

[waxen echo]

yes, they did ask me to change my approach from recursion to iterative(stack based) in one

the other I had to tweak a function

and time space complexities are common

[tranquil gull]

Thanks this is huge

Can i dm u in case i have more qs later on

[waxen echo]

sure

good luck to everyone else who have google interviews!

[gritty solstice]

thanks!

[mossy bison]

what type of graphs qs

like any specific lc q's to practice

[waxen echo]

one was bfs other was dfs (unfortunately cant go into specifics)

[waxen echo]

yeah similar to few

[mossy bison]

thx

[sick flare]

this might be a silly question but when referring to graphs, is this more matrix or tree

[waxen echo]

tree

for me it was tree

[hallow kindle]

How many neetcode 150 did u do prior to interview

[waxen echo]

did not keep a track 😅

[reef locust]

so it wasn’t bad? I’m grad too

[ripe raft]

were u dc? and does anyone know if interview process is actually easier questions for dc or not because i saw someone say that

[jagged harbor]

I was

[sterile girder]

Graph?

[sterile girder]

Can i be based on resume? Like if u have little exp, easier questions.

Bro i get google, and i became an interviewer, i promised i will make it easy for yall

[waxen echo]

nah it was fine, graph mediums and luckily interviewers were very chill and helpful

[ripe raft]

which level questions did you have?

[jagged harbor]

For me it was tree

[jagged harbor]

Medium and a REALLY long and kinda complicated medium?

My friend said it was a hard but I think it wasn't?

[ripe raft]

fuck it's def not easier for dc 😭

I've done a lot of random prep but i'm gonna try to go over medium/hards for trees hopefully thats good

was there any prep u did specifically that helped? and also when they reach out to u, do u get a provisional offer or do they say u just progress to team match or something

[hallow kindle]

I was dc too😭 genuinely might b cooked

[opaque basin]

Wait was the Goolge tagged on leetcode helpful?

[sick flare]

@jagged harbor r u bs or ms

[jagged harbor]

bs

[jagged harbor]

filter for the graph and dp ones

I feel like learning union, MST and a bunch of different algo can be very helpful

[jagged harbor]

Only coding. Had great conversations with the interviewers but thats because I like to yap. Neetcode 250 should be good enough. Focus on different algorithms and concepts, trade offs, number of questions means nothing. Check out solutions of questions even if you already solved it. Learning alternative approaches is useful for my case

[jagged harbor]

I think all processes of Google has team match afterwards

from a friend, new grad does have team match.

Though it can be time consuming, my friend was match for like 5 months

[jagged harbor]

They said matching starts in November. Yall are early.

[jagged harbor]

They said I got to Team match, that's all. They also say not all students gets matched to a team.

[jagged harbor]

I'm the guy who did 600 on zero2sudo story 😭💔

[jagged harbor]

I have shit experience, so idk, but I don't think any place would make stuff harder for ICPC champions and easier for a freshmen 💔💔

[waxen echo]

tf fr?

[jagged atlas]

i think that true my friend last yr cleared the interview but did not get a match

[sick flare]

Same but I think it’s based on timing

Like if ur in tm by the time it starts, u have a high chance

Most ppl who got screwed were the ones who entered tm around February/march

[waxen echo]

that is so sad

[waxen echo]

makes sense

[hallow kindle]

U think just looking at last 30 days is enough or should i do last 3 months