Google interview notes, page 52 of 215

“Classic combinatorics-meets-string-manipulation type problem.” 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.

“Pretty standard opener but I still fumbled it a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Google, Recruiter / HR Screen 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 can go in a hundred directions and that's kind of the problem.” 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 unbounded knapsack variant but I kept second-guessing whether order mattered (it doesn't, combinations not permutations).” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning 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 rambled about shipping features and collaborating with teammates, which felt fine in the moment but probably came across as generic.” 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.

“Jumped straight to the nested loop solution which is fine, it's O(N^2) and the output is literally N*(N-1)/2 entries so there's not much you can do about space.” 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 engagement metrics and kind of rambled about DAUs and match rates before realizing I hadn't even defined what 'success' means for a two-sided marketplace like this.” 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.

“Looks easy until you start thinking about edge cases.” 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.

“This one tripped me up more than I expected.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning 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.

“This question is doing three jobs at once and I didn't realize that fast enough.” 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.