Google Senior Software Engineer interview questions
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Various coding and infrastructure problems with 5 different interviewers. Solutions were whiteboarded. Interviewers asked good questions to drill deeper on complexity. Some problems were easy and well-defined. The hardest problems were more open-ended.
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How would you design a successful cloud computing offering?
It was split into two days.
5 interviews in total: 3 virtual interviews one day and 2 the next day.
Coding algorithms for 4 interviews and Googlyness .
The entire loop was online using google meet.
The recruiter contacted me the next day to give me the rejection call
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Leetcode questions about matrices and random numbers
five google meet interviews, three algorithm/coding interviews, one system design interview, one googliness interview.
I solved the three algorithm/coding interviews within the time limit with optimized solution also wrote a working code and tested it as well, also got good score on the googliness interview.
The system design interviewer was late for the interview, also after that he had technical issues which delay the interview even more, during the interview he went into a drinking break and as well stopped the interview 15 minutes before time, during the interview he wasn't very not clear with it's questions and what he want to be focused on.
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Easy algorithm questions, easy system design question.