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)
Incorporating Other's Feedback
Incorporated other's feedback
Managing Team During Tight Deadline
Managing team during tight deadline
Managing Conflicts
Managing Conflicts
Managing Different Opinions
Managing different opinions
Preparation Tips
I solved 1800+ problems across various platforms and had a LeetCode rating of 2000+ during the interview.