Google interview notes, page 108 of 215

“My first instinct was to just use a set and call it a day, which obviously kills the order.” 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.

“This one is deceptively wide.” 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.

“The first example made it look like a trivial flatten-and-sort.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Google, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Took me a while to even convince myself the recursion was right.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Google, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I got the sliding part pretty quickly but fumbled on efficiently dropping the k largest.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Google, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“They kept coming back to conflict scenarios from multiple angles.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer 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.

“The tie-breaking rules are where this gets messy.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Google, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I had a decent story ready for this but I fumbled the second part.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer 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 stared at this for an embarrassingly long time before realizing it's basically a mixed-radix number decoding problem.” 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 went straight to competitive landscape and probably spent too long there.” 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.