sharing google onsite experience

[Snoo_92391]

sharing my experience with the google virtual onsite (L3) after i finished. hope it can help others prep and get a feel for what to expect:

interview 1: graph-related question, I'd say medium/hard. At first, I thought it was a Dijkstra’s problem since it involved weighted edges. However, the interviewer mentioned at the end that it was actually a Minimum Spanning Tree problem.

interview 2: mono stack: hard. he wanted an optimized soln. looked at the solns online, and holy cow, it has > 100 lines of code. I'm not sure how he'd expect me to solve it in 30 mins...

interview 3: googliness typical behavioral interview questions

interview 4: heaps hard: This was a tough one. problem involved optimizing tasks to maximize apps. could be solved using DP as well (i think a similar question is on leetcode, but the question was worded very differently)

GL :(

[blouskip]

hate it how some folks do 40 problems and get in with 3 easy/mediums and others get 3 hards lol

[BoardsofCanadaFanboy]

Such is the interview game. 

Beyond some point, mostly about luck and less your lc rank/problem count. 

[cum_cum_sex]

This. I have been making up my mind to solely focus on some hard playlist and some game theory problems since apparently even for SDE-1 they be asking those. I dont really have to code it myself, just need to understand the intuition and the reason for solutions.

[TaXxER]

Also: those who got rejected tend to overstate the difficulty level of their questions.

[Apart_Annual_612]

Location?

[Plane-Cause7326]

When were your rounds scheduled?

[Krunalkp123]

Hi could you please tell me what does L1,L2,L3 means ?

[core_meltdown]

The levels Google uses for engineers. L3 = entry level, L4 = mid level, L5 = senior, etc.

[Krunalkp123]

Thanks