GOOGLE Interview Experience || Fresher || SWE - ll || INDIA
Summary
I interviewed with Google for a SWE-II role in India as a fresher and successfully received an on-campus offer after multiple technical and Googlyness rounds.
Full Experience
Google Problems + (My estimated mapping to LeetCode level) 👇
ROUND 1 : Online Assessment
Q1) Based on Range Sum (LeetCode Hard)
Q2) Based on DP involving OR and XOR operations (LeetCode Hard)
ROUND 2 : Technical Round
Q1) Based on Sliding Window (LeetCode Easy)
Q2) Follow up on Q1 adding queries (LeetCode Medium)
Q3) Follow up having at most k operations allowed (LeetCode Medium)
Q4) Follow up having q queries and at most k operations allowed (LeetCode Hard)
ROUND 3 : Technical Round + Googlyness
Q1) Based on previous and next Greater Element using Stacks + Prefix Sum (LeetCode Medium)
Q2) Multi-source BFS (LeetCode Medium-Hard)
Q3) Googlyness - "Incorporated other's feedback"
ROUND 4 : Technical Round + Googlyness
Q1) Gave Brute Force and a long discussion on various approaches to optimize it and how a particular approach can get wrong was discussed.
Q2) Googlyness - "Managing team during tight deadline
Q3) Googlyness - "Managing Conflicts"
Q4) Googlyness - "Managing different opinions"
Interview Questions (4)
Incorporated other's feedback
Managing team during tight deadline
Managing Conflicts
Managing different opinions
Preparation Tips
I solved 1800+ problems across various platforms and had a LeetCode rating of 2000+ during the interview.