Google | L3/L4 | NYC | Aug 2019 [Reject]
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Technical phone screen (45 mins):

  • Binary Search

Onsite (5 rounds):
4 rounds of algorithm+coding, 1 round Googleyness and Leadership and 1 lunch interview (no notes taken)

Round 1: [Googleyness and Leadership] [ This was the last round chronologically during onsite ]

  • Examples of leadership
  • When did you go above and beyond your responsibilities to deliver something
  • Challenges working with someone remotely
  • Instance where you did not take no for an answer
  • Example of failure and how you bounced back

Round 2:

Round 3:

Round 4:

Round 5:
Variation of these 2 problems:
https://leetcode.com/problems/word-ladder
https://leetcode.com/problems/open-the-lock

  • There is an init state, end state and safe states. If it is posssible to go from the init state to the end state (using the safe states), do so in minimum number of iterations and return
    'disarm'. If not possible, return 'run'.
    Values for a state can either be a '0' or a '1'. Only one value of the state can be changed at a time.
    Each transformed state must exist in the safe states.

    Examples as below:

    1. init: 000
      end: 111
      safe: 001 010 100 011 111 101
      return: disarm [ 000 --> 001 --> 101 --> 111 ]

    2. init: 00
      end: 11
      return: 00 11
      return: run

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