Google interview notes, page 201 of 215

“My first instinct was the standard backtracking approach I'd used for the no-duplicates version, and it immediately produced duplicate subsets.” 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 tension here is real and I don't think I handled it cleanly.” 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 jumped straight into features way too fast.” 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 a greedy sort on one dimension and I ran with it way too long before realizing it breaks on the second constraint.” 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 staring at this question internally wondering if they meant a literal appliance or some metaphor for a data pipeline.” 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 user research and problem framing, then walked through prioritization, cross-team coordination, and how we decided the thing was actually ready to ship.” 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 jumped straight to recursion and it worked but was way too slow.” 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 overthought the project selection.” The rest of the author's notes on Technical Program Manager 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 spent the first few minutes just staring at the tie-breaking rules.” 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 feature-complete angle is what tripped me up.” 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.