Google interview notes, page 160 of 215

“I fumbled the opening by jumping straight into tactics (talk to users, look at metrics) before establishing any kind of structure.” 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 is where I fumbled.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Google, Recruiter / HR Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I spent the first couple minutes just trying to figure out what 'capturing 80%' actually meant as a constraint.” 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.

“I started with the usual segmentation angle: device, geography, query type, time of day.” 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 is the one you absolutely cannot wing.” 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 knew it was BFS or union-find right away, but the string identifiers instead of integer node IDs slowed me down.” 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.

“The example they gave was small enough that I almost just hardcoded a BFS and called it a day.” 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 disguise was the whole challenge here.” 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.

“My first instinct was to talk through the technical steps and I think that's where I lost the plot 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.

“I went straight to regex and the interviewer seemed fine with that.” 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.