Google|SDE|L5|MV|Passed
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I feel that the rumors about Google lowering it's hiring bar are true. The questions that they asked me were so easy I couldn't believe it.

  1. Coding round - variations of https://leetcode.com/problems/concatenation-of-array/ and https://leetcode.com/problems/dot-product-of-two-sparse-vectors/
  2. System design - Design a system that distributes a file that is several GB in size across a large cluster of machines.
  3. Coding Round - https://leetcode.com/problems/peak-index-in-a-mountain-array/ and https://leetcode.com/problems/intersection-of-two-arrays/
  4. **Googlyness round **- I had prepared a lot of stories about past projects and clever ways I went about solving some challenging problems. This was my favorite round.
  5. Coding round - Probably my favorite coding round https://leetcode.com/problems/number-of-connected-components-in-an-undirected-graph/

While I'm glad I passed, I'm not sure if I'll take the offer, because I fear the job will be too easy or boring.

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