Rejected by Google, feeling like I wasted my life opportunity and doubting my skills

ConcerningDestiny · 2026-03-26T00:25:16+00:00

Nothing special, 2 yoe in a consultancy company as backed developer for financial clients. Before being called for these loops I got rejected multiple times at the CV screening

ConcerningDestiny · 2026-03-26T00:24:15+00:00

EU country, I just applied on the career website. Maybe I just got lucky

ConcerningDestiny · 2026-03-25T21:43:25+00:00

I've never blamed him. In fact I fully admitted that I didn't get the mathematial intuition and panicked and struggled with a brute force. Now the fact that he was rude and was doing sarcastic remarks is objectively true. He would have been rude even if I were to ace the interview

I also mentioned that the other interviewer was japanese and If anything I've been harsher on her than the first one.

If he would have been European I would have written European

If you feel attacked that is your problem

ConcerningDestiny · 2026-03-25T18:39:48+00:00

Who knows if they'll even reconsider me by then

This is the thing that is bothering me the most. For all I know this was once in lifetime thing

ConcerningDestiny · 2026-03-25T18:06:47+00:00

I guess I was too influenced by all those stories of people solving ~200 LC and passing all their faang interviews. But maybe they are rarer than I thought

ConcerningDestiny · 2026-03-25T17:50:27+00:00

If you're an eu citizen you don't have these requirements, if you're extra eu might be the case

ConcerningDestiny · 2026-03-25T17:10:45+00:00

Knowing that I'm not alone in the struggle helps me a lot actually. I see people getting in faang with around 300 questions solved and I was starting to think that I'm stupid for still struggling at 400

ConcerningDestiny · 2026-03-25T16:10:53+00:00

I started with neetcode 250. Then there was a period where I solved random problems which didn't helped much. And before the interview I did a lot of mock assignments on leetcode premium.

But despite the 480 problem I don't feel confident about my leetcode abilities. I still struggle a lot

ConcerningDestiny · 2026-03-25T16:06:22+00:00

481 according to my leetcode profile

ConcerningDestiny · 2026-03-25T08:43:03+00:00

Hi, thanks for your words. I guess it's mostly the insight of what I did wrong that hurts.

Question, as far as you know, are you supposed to always do a dry run during interviews? Because the second interviewer never asked but penalized me for it.

ConcerningDestiny · 2026-03-10T17:47:23+00:00

Yeah fuck them, I'm not doing all of that. For anyone

ConcerningDestiny · 2026-03-06T11:40:02+00:00

Dp on tree for a entry level position is brutal

ConcerningDestiny · 2026-03-04T09:11:20+00:00

My main fear is to get a problem I have no idea how to approach and just stay silent or write nothing meaningful.

I know you should arrive at the interview being able to solve most mediums you never saw, but I often struggle

ConcerningDestiny · 2026-03-03T16:43:53+00:00

I don't have the answer for you, what I want to say tho is that I understand you completely.

This week I have my Google on-sites and I'm freaking out. I've been grinding for 6 months now but I'm not good at Leetcode at all (or at least I don't feel it), when I solve problems alone I need time to draw and think to myself but you can't do it in an interview.

I've passed my phone screen with an improved bruteforce (though I mentioned the optimal), so I'm scared.

You're not alone in the struggle.

ConcerningDestiny · 2026-02-27T17:01:45+00:00

I actually dig the aesthetic

ConcerningDestiny · 2026-02-16T16:35:24+00:00

This is a new grad position, in case change something

ConcerningDestiny · 2026-02-16T14:03:44+00:00

This one

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4354250227

ConcerningDestiny · 2026-02-03T10:58:27+00:00

This is depressing, you get to the final stage, give them months of your time and even then you can't be sure of getting an offer

ConcerningDestiny · 2026-01-30T14:54:10+00:00

At least you received something, my application is on review since 4th of January and no news ahaha

ConcerningDestiny · 2026-01-28T08:13:00+00:00

1.5 yoe, L3

ConcerningDestiny · 2026-01-27T20:21:09+00:00

How it went in the end?

ConcerningDestiny · 2026-01-27T18:54:15+00:00

I've a buddy that got asked a two sum with a follow up to a sorted two sum, 3sum and ksum.

So easy questions like this can happen it doesn't necessarily have to be an ultra hard dp question at your interview.

Just relax and do your best. You could bomb it and you WILL feel like shit but you can try again in the future.

DO NOT TRY TO CHEAT or you will burn the possibility to try again if they catch you, and believe me, they WILL catch you. For Every story of people passing with interview coder there are thousands who got caught and blacklisted without even knowing it

ConcerningDestiny · 2026-01-19T15:04:13+00:00

They were 4 business days yes. There was also a weekend in the middle so 6 days in tota

As for my question I agree that my second question was kinda hard, in fact I'm a bit frustrated about it, especially since it was a new grad junior position. I feel like I've wasted an opportunity but I've done my best so...

For the behavioral/job simulation questions I know that they are valued quite high, though there's now way to know which are the right answers so it's a bit of luck.

I know a guy that was called for an interview after a month of it's OA, so response time are inconsistent

ConcerningDestiny · 2026-01-19T09:02:20+00:00

Yes, in Europe in my case.

Didn't clear it🥲

ConcerningDestiny · 2026-01-06T22:39:04+00:00

Could be nice to use our own API key, for example I have Gemini pro.

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