Google interview notes, page 106 of 215

“I knew BFS was involved but my first instinct was to binary search on the answer and check reachability at each candidate value.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Google, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with observational study design and immediately flagged seasonality as the big confounder, which felt right, but then I kind of stumbled when they pushed on geography and SES together.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Google, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Covered supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Google, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I had an answer ready but it came out kind of scattered.” The rest of the author's notes on Technical Program Manager interview at Google, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight to listing features and the interviewer just kind of waited.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Google, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Blanked for a second because I kept trying to think of it as a safety feature and couldn't make that work.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Google, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“These estimation questions always feel deceptively simple and then you're standing there trying to remember if you should start from supply or demand.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Google, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The online part is what makes this tricky.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Google, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one sprawled in ways I didn't expect.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Google, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was to just look for the node that nobody points to as a child, which is the right idea, but I fumbled explaining it cleanly.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Google, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.