!process Google withdrawn. I already

[pure bear]

Why not just wait and see what happens 😭

[granite ether]

😭😭😭

[torpid pebble]

I do not have the bandwidth for that, and I think I just want to end my recruiting.

[lusty verge]

did you do R2?

[torpid pebble]

I did not score well enough to have high hopes.

But yes

[granite ether]

I mean you wouldn’t have to do anything tho? It would just be in the background

[vivid relic]

its ok you can give process to me

[pure bear]

It doesn't hurt to wait, as you said you alr have an offer

[torpid pebble]

I am starting to think that maybe I did not get a hire rating since everyone seems to be able to code up the optimal approach

[torpid pebble]

I have to wait.

[granite ether]

There’s only two cases

Either you don’t hear back which is no different than pulling out

Or team match interview which would give you a better offer by chance

[granite ether]

Bro what

There’s no way just waiting and twiddling your thumbs scares you

Just put it in the back of your mind and forget it

[torpid pebble]

Yeah, but you will have to take my results too which are like LHs and H at best.

[lusty verge]

did you discuss optimal solution at all?

[granite ether]

It’s your decision but deadass throwing elo 😭😭😭

[torpid pebble]

Yeah, it definitely does

[granite ether]

GG

[torpid pebble]

For the first interview, I tried to, but my interviewer did not want to talk about that for some reason

[granite ether]

Yk headcount isn’t just those two right it’s also your resume and experiences and projects

[torpid pebble]

He wanted to do testing.

But I did not talk about the linear solution which was a greedy one

[lusty verge]

what topics were you given?

[torpid pebble]

2 dp and prefix sums/kadanes

The R1 was ust string processing

[lusty verge]

so im guessing you solved these with recursion?

[torpid pebble]

Well the first one, I did use recursion and wanted to talk about caching

The second one was iteration

I also do not know if my first interviewer liked my testing strategy

[lusty verge]

especially if you were given multiple dp which are counted as hard questions, not having all optimal should be ok but idk

[mild osprey]

You were prob fine ngl

[torpid pebble]

I don't know why but everyone seems to get optimal. And google's bar is to the sky.

[mild osprey]

I know some people who didn’t get optimal for all and still got TM

[lusty verge]

so for R2's two interviews you got 1dp question for them?

[torpid pebble]

Kinda. The first was definitely dp, but the second had kadane's which is derived from dp.

Since it checks the last one.

[lusty verge]

well i hope you have solid offers not to regret this choice 🙂

[torpid pebble]

They probably did optimal for at least a couple.

[torpid pebble]

Kinda.

I just want to rip the bandaid off.

[lusty verge]

its ok I have no offers at all

[mild osprey]

Either way congrats on the other offers

[lusty verge]

i got R2 next week and hella scared

[torpid pebble]

Thank you

[torpid pebble]

Oh shoot. I do not know how to help. I just did the neetcode250 a few times and tagged hards.

But I do not think my strategy was that good.

[lusty verge]

im just doing neetcode250 too rn lol

[torpid pebble]

One thing that might help is to make sure your code clenliness is good.

And that you are comfortable with the communication aspects

[lusty verge]

my r1 questions were pretty easy so i got lucky

[torpid pebble]

Same.

[lusty verge]

for the r2 dp questions were they familiar problems? from neetcode 150/250

[torpid pebble]

Not really.

[mild osprey]

NC150 + mock interviews with AI/real people is what I did

Google doesn’t ask familiar questions

[torpid pebble]

I wish I could help

[lusty verge]

rip

im just gonna grind dp and graphs and hope for best

[mild osprey]

Just know the patterns and talk through them during the interview

[torpid pebble]

I can feel for your situation

I would literally be crying in my bed if I did not have a backup offer.

[lusty verge]

lol thats me

[torpid pebble]

Last year I interviewed with tiktok, and that was my only process. WHen I failed, I actually got physically sick for almost a week

[muted shadow]

where u headed?

[lusty verge]

my r2 switched to virtual tho due to winter storm

[torpid pebble]

Ibm. I am a mid level though.

[lusty verge]

which locatoin?

[muted shadow]

location?

[torpid pebble]

San Jose

[muted shadow]

[lusty verge]

i just did ibm interviews too

for lowell tho......

[torpid pebble]

Awesome.

I hope they went well.

[lusty verge]

they had two interviews but both were completely behaviorals

i think i did pretty well but i dont know what next steps are

[torpid pebble]

Interesting.

[sacred cave]

let this man live bruh

interviewing is stressful

not everyone wants faang lmao

[torpid pebble]

I used to want faang, but I think trying super hard to get in for the past couple years has ruined it for me. Also the layoffs ruined one of my other faang processes.

[naive path]

Yea it’s all good man if it stresses u out waiting could make sense

[open patio]

they might put you on cooldown or something

[robust vessel]

@torpid pebble wdym skip head count? Is it not enough to pass R2 and then get TM form to start team matching?

[wind reef]

nah hiring managers select who to intv and take

based on how well you did in ur intvs

[torpid pebble]

I meant hiring committee. There’s like no chance I did well enough to skip it.

[robust vessel]

Oh so even if u did mid and get to TM then it’s still likely you won’t get calls from HMs for Team Mateching?

[wind reef]

something like that but i dont know the exact numbers

cuz idk what mid is equal to exactly and how many of those mid ratings converted to TM

[pure bear]

I mean isn't cooldown a year?

[clever sedge]

There is a cooldown for withdrawing?

[torpid pebble]

Don’t know, don’t care. I’m really disappointed in how I did and feel really embarrassed for how I handled the second problem and was like mentally dancing around the optimal solution idea.