Google | L3 | Seattle | November 2018 [Reject]
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Status: Semi recent grad with 3 years mobile developement experience at a small startup
Location: Seattle, WA
Date: November 2018

1 online coding phone screen and 5 in person interviews, 1 hour each

Phone screen:

Onsite:

Round 1:

Round 2:

  • Asked about current work.
  • Given an image containing multiple sprites (image in this case was a 2d array and you have a function isPixel(i, j) to test if an element is part of the sprite) return the height and width of the sprites such that they can be cut out evenly. I was probably specifically asked this because of my experience with unity. The input would look something like this:
    image

Round 3:

  • My memory is a little fuzzy on this one. The question had to do with sorting a list of songs by genre and then by play count I think. My first thought was a solution involving stable sorts but it ended up not being the case.

Round 4:

  • Started with behavoral question about resolving issues.
  • Timer

Round 5:

Everyone was very nice, made things pretty comfortable. You get a lunch break after the second interview with another google engineer. No pressure there just get to eat and chat about whatever. I did not get the job. I feel like I did pretty average on the first 4 in person interviews but I totally fell apart on the 5th and completely gave up on finding a solution half way through.

Edit: I also bombed the phone interview (leet code hard question) but maybe the phone screen is a little more relaxed about how well you do.

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