**Status:** 3.5 Years experianced\n**Position:** SDE 2 at Unicorn startup\n**Location:** India\n\nI applied for L4 and was offerd L3!\n\nDue to NDA I won\'t be sharing specific question but surely the topics and diffculity level. If you are looking for change and Google is on the list, start with Google as the process will take 45 days even if HR says 15 days!\n\n**Technical phone screen (1 hour):**\n - Algorithmic Question \n - Topics: Heap, Map\n - Diffcuilty: Medium\n\nThe question was an implemenation of a prediction problem based on some data, language was little vauge but really easy to solve! Interviewer was very helpful! I guess I got a strong hire here!\n\n**Round 1**\n\nVery vauge question and poor examples, I was very nervous and was unable to understand and I tried to ask questions to make the sense of it but was not able too. Mistake I did, I took the last example as the base case and asked some questions and jumped to solving. It was a tree question and I don\'t know why I didn\'t created trees on the doc to ask him question I wanted to open a miro to create diagrams and show him but I was shying away. As I begin solving he realized I got it all wrong, so he quickly came up with a tree and shared his screen after that it was clicked me but I was too late! \n\n- Topics: BFS, DFS\n - Diffcuilty: Medium\n - Result: No hire (1)\n\n\n**Round 2**\n\nWe chated about my projects, he was a full stack too, so we had nice chit chat, he seemed to be really impressed by my answer. Question was really easy but tricky (It\'s on leetcode premium, No promotions!)\n\n- Topics: Tree traversal\n - Diffcuilty: Medium\n - Result:  Hire (3)\n\n**Round 3**\n\nThe interviwer was from outside India and very helpful throghout the interview. Question was realted to strings, I came up with silly soltion 2^n then optimized using cache(memo) top bottom DP. He was happy but then he said what if 1 string is too big, can you optmize it somehow, I was not able to come up with anything so he gave me an example and volia it clicked me. No coding for this follow up. To be honest thank god no coding, because though I was able to come with a solution it was really hard.\n\n- Topics: DP, String\n - Diffcuilty: Hard\n - Result:  Strong Hire (4)\n\n**Round 4**\n\nMatrix problem (similar is on leetcode), As I knew this problem I skipped a very important point in the question so for brute force method I came up with wrong complexity but he corrected me, then I took a visited matrix (to avoid loop) but it was not needed, he asked me it is needed? It clicked me I explained why not and removed then solved the problem and follow up! \n\nThis was the deciding round for me, L4 or L3. Due to that missed point, I missed the L4 and also he forget about the visited array removal explanation. (My HR asked me did you removed some code without any explanation on pointing, so it\'s a guess.)\n\n- Topics: DP, Matrix, DFS\n - Diffcuilty: Hard\n - Result:  Leaning No Hire (2)\n\n\n**Round 5**\n\nBehavoiral round\n\n\n**Team Match**\n\nHappened with one team, aligns with my work said yes.\n\n**Result**\n\nOffer L3\n\n\n**Final Note**\n\nPlease Do MOCK INTERVIEWS! and Leetcode premium is not required but very helpful you can take 1 month subscription only.\n\n\nProbably I am rejecting it! I have an offer from very techincally reputated Startup!\n\n\n**How I know my scores?**\nHR gave me enough hints! I got lucky my HR was very nice and very helpful.\n\n\nGoogle takes a lot time to process everything I think we started talking about number after 10 days of my team match but as L3 has low TC and also level downgradation and other Company is very promosing  + Good WLB so I went ahead with it and said No even without hearing the numbers.\n\nI might apply for L4 again if things are not good here.\n\nI joined **Rubrik.**

Status: 3.5 Years experianced\nPosition: SDE 2 at Unicorn startup\nLocation: India\n\nI applied for L4 and was offerd L3!\n\nDue to NDA I won\'t be sharing spec