Hey Everyone, Im sharing my recent Google Software Engineer L3 interview experience.
The LeetCode Discuss section helped me a lot in my prep and its time for me to give back to the community.
There were total 4 Interviews.
- Virtual Technical round
- Virtual googliness round
- Onsite Technical round
- Onsite Technical round
Virtual Technical Round
Question: A variation of https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-good-subarray-sum in which we have to return any pair of indices {i, j} rather than the max sum.
Virtual Googliness Round
Simple behavioural and hypothetical questions.
Onsite Technical Rounds
Both the rounds were on the same day, back to back in Google's office.
Two different interviewers and two different questions.
Question1:
It was a story wrapped question but the crux of the questions was,
Given a string consisting of only 2 letters 'a' and 'b' such that the number of 'a' and number of 'b' is even in the string. You can make at most 2 cuts in the string and divide the sub-strings amongst Alice and Bob in such a way that the number of 'a' Alice has == number of 'a' bob has and number of 'b' Alice has == number of 'b' bob has. Return the index or indices of the cut(s).
Question2:
Another story wrapped question but the crux was,
Given an array of integers in one operation you will select any element from the array and remove it from the array then you have to tell that is it possible to divide that new array into two subarrays such that the sum of the subarrays is equal (after doing the operation).
I was able to solve every question and was give a positive verdict in each round. (Was told to work on my time management as a feedback)
After completing all the rounds my recruiter called me in 2 days to tell me that I have cleared the interviews and my profile is being sent for team-matching stage, got a team match in 2 business days, had a good talk with the manager. Then came the Hiring Committee, in which my packet was sent to the HC, after 3 days recruiter called for Compensation discussion and on the same day got the offer.
If anybody needs some tips on how I did it, I would just say, to believe in yourself because any day your destiny can change and you would want to be ready to witness it. I have had 20 rejections from Google (never went even till OA or interview), never thought it would come to me on a random wednesday, but it did and I was (hopefully) ready. So whatever you believe in, God, destiny, fate make sure to believe in yourself too.
Thanks!
