#!process manifesting two sum in google

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idle depot
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It is their most frequently asked interview question so you never really know

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That said tho twosum is so overrated frequency-wise

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Ts cannot be the most frequently asked interview question

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Idk any mf who got twosum in their interview

thin spruce
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im essentially hoping for a graph problem over dp and hopefully not some bullshit like tries or bit manipulation

idle depot
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💀

idle depot
thin spruce
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i'm lazy so i only practice dp and graph bc i know thats 70% chance i get them

idle depot
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DP is more likely to have a very elegant solution

idle depot
thin spruce
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graph and dp problems always follow the same general pattern

paper parrot
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I grinded hard on dp and graphs only to get arrays strings and stacks on google

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It’s very rng

thin spruce
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idk, mine is week and a half after int invite

merry slate
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@thin spruce how long after your email about passing to r1 did you get the email to schedule the r1?

thin spruce
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like 10 minutes

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i put avail

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and they assign

merry slate
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maybe i should follow up

buoyant pewter
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everyone is already in google proc orz

thin spruce
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Mine was diff

idle depot
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we too will get google proc

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OA and/or catalyst R1

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coming our way

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idc it's google.

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as long as I get paid and do SWE for google, idc what the job details are, I'm doing it.

thin spruce
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I think it is

idle depot
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I'll just b e goated and match even if it's not guaranteed

thin spruce
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Not sure but seems like it

idle depot
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you work on AI systems and infra in the cloud

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not sure what specifically they'll have you do, but it's probably p cool

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I'd be a lil sad if it's just crud but see above for my thoughts about working at google.

zealous moth
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Everyone is in google proc wtf

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😭😭

buoyant pewter
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i think it’s guaranteed

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no way they are paying ft salary just to let go

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that’s true

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google and netflix left in faang to reject me

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after a process

idle depot
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but you're right it'd be weird to pay someone a fulltime salary for a year and let them go so easily

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unclear

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all they mentioned is they're offering like anywhere between 110-170k (I assume TC cause the upper end looks like waaaay too much for entry level base) for the year-long program

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locations at Kirkland and Sunnyvale only

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LC is like riding a bike dw

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just brush the rust off

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and you'll be ok

merry slate
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i wonder if it’s better to schedule interview early or later

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since early means you get in the process sooner

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but risk not being prepared

idle depot
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yea team match hell sorta balances everything out

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you can take your time with Google

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afaik

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some people have asked to interview like a month out for tons of practice time and were hired just fine in the end

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yea smth like that

merry slate
idle depot
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Google's "headcount" is just a hiring freeze where nobody calls to team match

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if you're unlucky you could be in a freeze for months at the start of team match

merry slate
idle depot
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very possible you stay in team match either until you get tired of it and take another offer or you hit the time limit and your recruiter cuts you off

merry slate
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i can’t imagine going thru it all and passing, and not getting a team

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why is google the only company that does this team match process

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they must be very serious

idle depot
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yea you're guaranteed to go into a team that you want and that wants you

merry slate
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interesting, so there’s probably a whole process where you have to interview with the team then right?

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like the team has to like you too

idle depot
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they had to call multiple people and like you over all of them

merry slate
idle depot
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yep

merry slate
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damn wtf, google lowkey mad hard to get them

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then*

idle depot
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^

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things may have changed now but in the past I've heard once you get into team match, you'll make it out with an offer in not too long

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it just sounds daunting

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but now mighjt be different

merry slate
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it definitely is, my resume is no name internships, granted i am from a t10 school(not t10 in cs), applied late with no referral and i got google oa but i know others with much better prev haven’t yet

idle depot
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there's a lot of talk of people being in team match so long their recruiter closed their application 💀

idle depot
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they're one of the few faang-tier companies where people with no prev often get process

merry slate
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yeah i wonder if they will filter hard after r1 this year, i doubt they want to fly out hella people and reject most of them lol

merry slate
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i wonder why tho

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it seems like an ex faang will almost def be more qualified than someone with unheard of companies

idle depot
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but idk they just do what they do

merry slate
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i am not the strongest at lc like i’ve never solved medium tree/heap/dp/dfs/bfs qs

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so i wonder if it might be over for me now that im at r1

idle depot
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practice makes perfect

merry slate
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maybe 2 weeks of practice is enough

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i assume they are looking for optimal solutions

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as in you can’t pass with suboptimal sol, no matter how good your communication and problem solving is

teal arch
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does google OA have a behavioral questionnaire?

zealous moth
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Imagine you worked so hard in your college years while someone with 0 exp get the process but not you

idle depot
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This was a thing since before xwf recruiters

zealous moth
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And they will make 100+ posts on linkedin or reddit or whatever shi and say they got the offer bc they are very hard working and you should try harder

idle depot
zealous moth
slim shell
idle depot
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First time I’ve ever seen that LOL

slim shell
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yeah but he had to optimize two diff ways for space and time but that’s still easy lol

alpine summit
earnest cipher
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can u share what type of question you were asked?

thin spruce
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dp

earnest cipher
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its

oa > first rounds(1 tech, 1 behaviour) > second rounds(2 tech) > tm