Google interview notes, page 116 of 215

“I went straight to market share and new user acquisition, which felt right but I kind of ignored the brand risk angle until they pushed back.” 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.

“Permutations is one of those problems where you either know the recursive backtracking pattern cold or you're drawing blanks on a whiteboard.” 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 jumped straight to solutions and had to walk it back.” 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.

“This one tripped me up more than I expected.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning 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 fumbled this more than I expected.” The rest of the author's notes on Product 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 fumbled this a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Google, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The example they gave makes it click pretty fast: 12 and 21 are the same group, 34 and 43 are the same group.” 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 with product recommendations for batch (run nightly, serve from a cache) and fraud detection for real-time.” 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.

“This went about as well as an interview can go.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Google, Onsite - Multi Round round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Picked a project I knew well but probably over-explained the data pipeline and ran out of time before getting to model evaluation, which is usually what they actually care about.” 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.