Google interview notes, page 8 of 215

“I picked a college project team which in hindsight maybe wasn't the strongest move for a Google interview.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer 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.

“My first instinct was to just run Kahn's algorithm and call it done.” 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 had a decent story ready but fumbled the stakeholder communication part.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer 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 went straight to listing features and the interviewer just kind of waited.” 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.

“It's Number of Islands, basically.” 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 picked something I actually use daily which felt smart at first, but then I realized I'd spent so much time explaining why I love it that I barely left room to talk about improvements.” 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.

“Spent a bit too long trying to think of a greedy approach before accepting it's just DP.” 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 knew there was a DP angle here but spent too long trying to build a full table before realizing the greedy approach is cleaner.” 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 recruiter called it optional but that word does a lot of heavy lifting.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Google, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with the user journey because I had no idea where else to begin.” 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.