Google interview notes, page 29 of 215

“This is the kind of question where you can go wide or deep and it's genuinely hard to know which they want.” 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 'I'd escalate to my manager' and the interviewer just kind of waited, so I kept talking and dug myself into a weird hole about company policy.” 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.

“I knew it was a level-order traversal thing pretty quickly, but I wasted maybe two minutes half-explaining DFS before catching myself.” 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 for a top-down approach and started throwing out population numbers, which felt okay at first.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer 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 with a tokenizer feeding into a recursive descent parser which felt right and the interviewer seemed fine with the direction.” 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.

“This one pulled me in two directions at once.” 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 sprawled in every direction.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Google, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I overcomplicated this at first.” 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 started rattling off the obvious cases like network effects and small sample sizes, but then blanked a bit on what to actually propose as alternatives.” 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.