Giving back to the community. Sorry for the late post
Interviews happend in August 2025
Location : India
Screening:
- https://leetcode.com/problems/remove-all-adjacent-duplicates-in-string/description/
Gave the single pass with vector approach
- https://leetcode.com/problems/russian-doll-envelopes/description/
Solved using LIS with binary search approach
Dry ran both
Verdict: SH (as perceived from feedback)
Onsite:
Round 1:
https://leetcode.com/discuss/post/5672722/help-to-solve-below-question-google-l3-b-qwyt/
Feedback: SH
Round 2:
- Some adhoc question on probability which I don't remember (apologies)
It was based on something like this, but not this (It was easier)
https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-students-taking-exam/description/
Solved it and did the dry run.
- https://leetcode.com/problems/path-with-maximum-probability/description/
Kind of similar
I wasn't able to solve it optimally and do the dry run. Didn't took the interviewer hint
Feedback: NH
Round 3: Design round
- Interviewer just pasted on my board some weired problem on some rhyming scheme and left for me to interpret what was happening. He gave me an example and asked me to give more examples.
The problem statement wasn't clear with the example given. I asked him to explain how the sample example he gave is working but he asked me to write one example of my own and he will explain that ( lol, looked like a deadlock). Then he just asked me to code it and then when I started typing, he said lets move onto a system design problem as candidates find this problem difficult to understand ( just 7 minutes into interview )
Feedback: NH (I wasn't able to provide a solution to the coding problem. But the feedback for the desing part was good.)
Round 4: Googlyness
Feedback : H/SH (doesn't matter)
Hope it helps :)