Google interview notes, page 57 of 215

“I started with a trie-based approach for prefix matching and the interviewer seemed fine with it but kept nudging me toward personalization and context.” 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.

“The first part was fine.” 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.

“This question is deceptively wide.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager 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 got the BFS part down pretty quickly, tracking parents to reconstruct the path at the end.” 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.

“Case sensitivity tripped me up for a second.” 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.” 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 rambled for a bit before landing on anything concrete.” 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.

“Pretty standard opener.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer 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 was a monster of a question.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist 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 question is deceptively wide.” 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.