Google interview notes, page 187 of 215

“I recognized the two problems it was pulling from pretty fast and jumped straight to the sorted list plus binary search approach.” 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 went straight to run-length encoding (value, count pairs) which felt right for the example they gave.” 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 knew this was Dijkstra-flavored but fumbled the transition from 'minimize sum' to 'minimize max' for a bit.” 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 thinking about who actually uses an ATM at an international airport and that turned out to be the right move.” 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 went straight into OKRs and top-down alignment, which felt fine in the moment but looking back I skipped over the part about how you actually get buy-in from the team itself.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager 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.

“My first instinct was union-find and I went with it, but I almost forgot to validate that parent values themselves are in range before doing anything else.” 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 story ready but halfway through I realized it wasn't actually that complex, more like a coordination mess than a real problem.” 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.

“This is basically what I'm losing sleep over.” 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.

“Slightly weird to get a competitor product question at Google but I've heard it happens.” 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 the kind of question where you think you have a good answer until you're actually saying it out loud.” 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.