Location: Mountain View
Date: 11/12/2018

Since I signed NDA, I will vaguely describe interview problems. This will be mostly about my experience.

Onsite:
Started my day with 3 back to back 45 minute interviews then lunch, then 2 more.

Round 1:

• Behavioral 5 min.
• A problem that turned out to be a graph problem. I think diff was between (med - hard). I finished it on time. I was stuck for about 10 minutes at one point but he gave me a small hint which opened the flood gates and everything clicked in my head. Discussed time complexity but didn't have time for follow ups.

Round 2:

• Some array sorting using some intensive problem solving skills to get it right. I think diff was a very soft hard. possible medium.
  I finishied it on time. While I knew what to do, spent about 20 minutes talking about the problem before writing a single code. Some guidance level hints were accepted but basically figured out the whole thing by myself. Had no time for follow ups.

Round 3:

• Typical graph traversal problem. Difficulty i think was medium. I think my answer was not the fastest, so I guess sub-optimal, but still hack of a lot better than naive one. Finished coding the answer in 25 minutes. spent rest 15 minutes on follow ups. 1st follow up was easy, 2nd one kind of was difficult and could not give answer.

Lunch:

• I had 60 minute lunch with a googler. It was relaxing.

Round 4:

• Some question about a data structure. I have no idea what the difficulty would be. Started out easy enough and quickly got complex. I have no idea how I did this on this problem because I got stuck hard on follow ups.

Round 5:

• Because I was using javascript as my main language, I was ambushed with a front-end related coding. I think difficulty was medium. Started with 5 min warm up problem. it was very obviouse to me but apparently many ppl miss this. Followed by open ended question, giving me freedom on how to get it done.

Overall, I think I did poorly on 1, decently well on 2, and pretty well on 2.
Since I have no point of reference, I have no idea how I did. If I hear back, I'll let you guys know what happened based on my experience described above.