Google (Senior) Software Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. I interviewed at Google (San Jose, CA) in Sep 2020
Interview
1 Phone Interview and 1 Virtual Technical Interview
The questions were of medium difficult level involving graphs and trees. Overall the experience was very interactive and friendly. I did my best but missed by a slim margin
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Google (Kiew, ) in Jun 2020
Interview
1. Hr interview with general questions.
2. First tech interview(some common and theoretical questions).
3. Second tech interview(live coding in online editor or google docs with mid - to - hard difficulty algorithmic questions).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Time complexity for common data structures like trees, hash tables, search/sorting e.t.c.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Bengaluru)
Interview
Round -1 (Written Round) Pen and Paper
Level order Traversal in spiral form.
Design deck of cards with joker (53 cards).
1 array question need to do in O(n).
Round -2 F2F
About previous projects and role.
In- place rotation of 2D Array by 90 degree clockwise.
About Amazon- what are the different projects in amazon
Round-3 F2F
Find the sum of all elements in a matrix except the elements in row and/or column of given cell?
Print top view of tree without hashing.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Round -1 (Written Round) Pen and Paper
Level order Traversal in spiral form.
Design deck of cards with joker (53 cards).
1 array question need to do in O(n).
Round -2 F2F
About previous projects and role.
In- place rotation of 2D Array by 90 degree clockwise.
About Amazon- what are the different projects in amazon
Round-3 F2F
Find sum of all elements in a matrix except the elements in row and/or column of given cell?
Print top view of tree without hashing.