Google interview notes, page 163 of 215

“This one took longer than I expected.” 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 one of those questions where you can go shallow fast if you're not careful.” 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.

“Not a direct copy but close enough that anyone who drilled that list would recognize it.” 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 jumped straight to Kahn's algorithm and felt good about it, but then they asked why my output differed from theirs on the example and I realized I was using a regular queue instead of a min-heap.” 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 spent the first minute just kind of staring at the prompt because I kept waiting for a catch.” 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 wrecked me a little.” 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.

“The consistency piece is what tripped me up.” 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 spent the first couple minutes just trying to figure out what Google even wants from this space.” 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.

“My first instinct was to sort and simulate, which works but I fumbled explaining why a min-heap on end times is the cleaner approach.” 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 gradient boosting and talked through why tree-based models tend to handle the mix of numeric and categorical features you get in real estate data pretty well.” 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.