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I did over 400 interviews working there, and many hundreds more serving on hiring committees. I never gave a leetcode interview, and saw only a modest amount o
by lokar 3y ago
I did over 400 interviews working there, and many hundreds more serving on hiring committees. I never gave a leetcode interview, and saw only a modest amount of them in committee.
“It’s all leetcode BS” makes a great offhand d complaint but was not the actual truth.
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- mportela 3y agoThen I'm super unlucky because my last phone interview there 3 weeks ago was definitely Leetcode.
- bradlys 3y agoI’ve interviewed there multiple times over the years. It was full of typical leetcode shit. There’s a reason there’s a list of problems on leetcode tagged as Google having used them recently…
- Apocryphon 3y agoOkay, then what questions did you give in interview?
- lokar 3y agoI personally did a lot of system design, debugging (systems or code), or deep technical dive (explain in more and more detail how something works and why it works that way).
- 01100011 3y agoI only interviewed once with them, but there wasn't anything I'd consider leetcode. There was a rather aggressive interviewer who drilled me on an architectural web services question despite interviewing for a systems programming position on Fuchsia and having a resume solely in embedded/systems programming. From my limited experience I'd say the interview process is broken, but not in the way people on here think.
- ken47 3y agoGoogle reached out to me a few times to see if I'd interview with them. On the one or two phone calls I had with their recruiters, they explicitly advised me to practice algorithms (leetcode et al) if I wanted to move forward. Perhaps what you were doing was not the norm.
- gregors 3y agoI personally like the story of the hiring committee that refused to hire themselves https://youtu.be/r8RxkpUvxK0?t=531 https://youtu.be/r8RxkpUvxK0?t=531
- ashconnor 3y agoI watched this a while ago and thought I’m clearly too dumb to work at Google because I’m not going to come up with convex hull algorithms in an interview room.
- superconduct123 3y agoThen why is there hundreds of Google tagged questions on LeetCode?
- lokar 3y agoIt’s a big company, and I left 5 years ago