Google Senior Software Engineer interview questions
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Google (Kiew, ) in Jun 2020
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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).
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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.
Some questions and reviews with recruiters, very nice person, and very professional computer field expertise. Then with onsite white board QA section, nice to talk and learn with google guys
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Question 1
What is Dijkstra's algorithm? And Advantages and disadvantages