Google interview notes, page 32 of 215

“I fumbled this a bit because my first instinct was to say 'when everyone signs off' which is basically a non-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.

“The core of this is backtracking and I knew that going in, but I fumbled the box index calculation for a bit.” 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 picked the right data structure and got the code mostly working on my own, which felt good.” 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 jumped straight into a number and then had to backtrack, which felt messy.” 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 where I spent most of my time and still felt like I left stuff on the table.” 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.

“I went straight to wildlife conservation as the use case, which felt safe but maybe too narrow.” 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 plain linked list and I said so out loud, which was fine for addParty and cancelParty but then seatTable came up and I realized scanning the whole list each time was not going to fly for 200k ops.” 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 spent way too long on the problem setup and barely got to actual features before they nudged me along.” 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 messed with my head a little because Google owns Android but also competes with Meta.” 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.

“Went through it well enough but fumbled some edge cases.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Google, Onsite - Multi Round round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.