Google | L3 | Zurich/Munich | May 2020 [Reject]
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Current position: ML engineer
Experience : 2 years software engineering, 1.5 years in ML
Education : Masters in CS

Prep:
I started preparing for a google interview after I received a call from the recruiter.

I brushed up some basics here https://runestone.academy/runestone/books/published/pythonds/index.html.
I did CTCI problems on arrays, trees, graphs and DP.

Before my onsite interview, I completed 200 problems on leetcode:
60 - easy
120 - medium
20 - hard

Google
Position : SWE - (ML teams)
Location : Europe (Zurich/Munich)
Contacted by recruiter about 2 months back

Phone Screen 1
Time : 45 minutes
Question 1 : N-Ary tree deletion related question similar to https://leetcode.com/problems/delete-nodes-and-return-forest/.

Phone Screen 2
Time : 45 minutes
Question 1 : A non-overlapping subarray sum problem similar to https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-sum-of-two-non-overlapping-subarrays/

Virtual Onsite

Interview 1 :
Graph DFS problem similar to https://leetcode.com/problems/all-paths-from-source-lead-to-destination/.
This round went very well and had a positive feedback.

Interview 2:
ML related questions on deploying ML models, my experience etc
Write an algorithm for train-test-split with some constraints.
This round went well and received a positive feedback.

Interview 3:
Behavioural
Went well, standard leadership questions

Interview 4:
Stack based postfix expression calculator, with lot of follow up and test cases. Similar to https://leetcode.com/problems/basic-calculator/

I came up with the solution, but took more time than expected to understand the question. As a result, did not have a clean enough code by the end. Not a positive feedback

Interview 5:
A question similar to https://leetcode.com/problems/add-bold-tag-in-string/ involved substrings and merge intervals.
Solved, Not a positive feedback - expected better test cases and faster code

Recruiter called me in about a week and informed me that they cannot move forward.

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