GOOGLE ONSITE INTERVIEW PREP (Drop prep tips here)

[harsh portal]

Tips/Topics to prep for Google onsite?

[foggy granite]

Just ace the technicals

[errant garden]

Communicate your thoughts

[harsh portal]

drop tips for interview prep

[jolly sapphire]

pray

[foggy granite]

Make sure you know a breadth of knowledge on DSA and be prepped for anything

Obviously you gotta have depth knowledge as well so it depends how much you know/don’t know and how long you have until the interview to get there

[harsh portal]

is FB tagged enough prep for g?

i've only been doing FB tagged so far

[errant garden]

Even G tagged isnt enough for G. They seldom repeat qs

[harsh portal]

i guess my question is what best helped you ace the interview?

[foggy granite]

Knowledge of DSA and knowing each topic well

Literally that’s it

There’s no secret formula like there is for fb

You just need to know your shit and pray for good RNG lol

[trail furnace]

Do we need to know advanced graph algos like Dijkstra, kruskal, etc?

[foggy granite]

Djikstras is common so yes

Kruskal’s idk but good to know it

You can pick up on all the graph algo’s in a few days if you just keep at it

It isn’t that bad

[harsh portal]

DP?

[foggy granite]

I’d def study djikstra’s, union find and Topo

Yes know DP

Know how to do 1d + 2d DP

[trail furnace]

Yeah I figured.... I'll have like a month to prep with no other interviews to worry about so I should be fine

[harsh portal]

I have a week but i know dijkstra's, union , topo and medium level dp

[foggy granite]

Trees and graphs are the biggest ones tho

Know everything about them inside and out tbh

Yeah that’s good

You can either cover other topics you’re weak at or improve on those

[rose orchid]

were the majority of ur technicals trees and graphs?

[foggy granite]

I’ll let you know if I decide to take the on-site

[rose orchid]

@willow crag those q's actually helped?

[sturdy quail]

Do you mean this course on LC ?

Ah ty, my on-site is in 3 weeks so I'm highly considering shell out for LC premium lol

Oh they do regional pricing 👀👀👀 I'll be sure to try that it cause half price makes that a no brained tyty

[rose orchid]

if i get a question of this difficulty on the interview i'm just gonna leave https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-cost-to-hire-k-workers/

[cloud adder]

grokking ??

thanks! I will have a look! I never thougth about having a mentor

[sturdy quail]

Be aware if you want grokking you can buy just the course for a year you don't need to buy the whole educative.io unlimited subscription thing

I bought just grokking plus took advantage of a github student promo that educative has to give me free access to DP study materials with python which is my preferred language

Specifically this one: https://www.educative.io/courses/dynamic-programming-in-python
I'd def try and get github student for free through your uni to have a well-rounded study material collection

100%, wish I knew about the VPN trick to get half off but oh well

I knew I saw the "button" for just the course and it took me like 10 minutes to find it again sneaky bastards

[cloud adder]

that one is 13$/month in Spain. Looks like a good resource. Thanks @willow crag
https://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-coding-interview

definetly gona keep an eye on your resources

[cloud adder]

yeah i just read your advise haha

thanks!

[copper thorn]

@willow crag is google onsite still coding on google docs?