Google interview notes, page 193 of 215

“Brute force came to me pretty fast: inorder traversal to collect leaves, flip one, re-evaluate the whole tree, restore it, repeat.” 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.

“Market sizing for a free product is a weird place to start because you have to decide pretty quickly whether you're sizing users, potential revenue, or some proxy for value.” 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 spent the first minute just trying to figure out what 'inactive' even means here, which was probably the right instinct but I fumbled the segmentation part.” 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 listing UI complaints and kind of lost the thread for a bit.” 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.

“The two constraints together are what make this annoying.” 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 fumbled this a bit.” 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.

“I spent the first thirty seconds just kind of staring.” 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.

“Classic leadership question but the follow-ups are where it gets tricky.” 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 went straight into features and kind of skipped the whole 'who is this for' part, which I regretted mid-answer.” 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'd seen this problem before so I wasn't panicking, but I fumbled explaining why a min-heap on end times actually works.” 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.