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Jun 17, 2025

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I interviewed at Google (Bengaluru)

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The interview comprised of 3 rounds. All three of them focused on Data Structures and Algorithms and one of them had a Googleyness round for 15mins. Googleyness is basically the behavioural round for google.

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Question 1

First Round: Build a probabilistic map which maps keys to a list of some values. whenever the user tries to access the key it returns a random value from the list which then gets deleted with the same probability as the other values. Googleyness: 1) Did you have conflicting decisions when working in a team and if so how did you tackle that situation. 2) Was there a time when you stood up for a teammate?

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Question 2

Second Round: There is a lock and there is a password with the keys : {1,2,3,4,5}. I was asked to generate all the possible passwords with the keys. In one step a person can press multiple (possibly zero keys). Find all the possible passwords.

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There is an unsorted array with the condition that abs(index_current - index_sorted) <= k, k<

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Jun 17, 2025

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I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Google in Jun 2025

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The Google interview typically begins with one technical coding round that may include some follow-up questions, followed by a behavioral interview, and then two additional technical coding interviews focused on algorithms and data structures.

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Question 1

tell a conflict with coworkers

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Software Engineer Interview

Jun 17, 2025

Anonymous Interview Candidate

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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google (Mumbai) in Dec 2024

Interview

The process consisted of 5 rounds: Online Assessment on HackerRank (2 coding problems) Technical Phone Screen 1 – Data structures and algorithms Technical Phone Screen 2 – System design and code optimization Onsite / Virtual Onsite (3 rounds): Data Structures & Algorithms (Coding) System Design / Low-level design Behavioral ("Googliness", leadership principles, team fit)

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Question 1

Round 1 (OA): Find the longest palindromic substring. Design a rate limiter using concurrent goroutines (Go specific). Round 2 (Phone Screen): Implement LRU cache from scratch. Time and space optimization for recursive Fibonacci. Round 3 (System Design): Design a URL shortening service (like bit.ly). Discuss trade-offs between consistency and availability. Round 4 (Behavioral): Describe a time you disagreed with a teammate. How do you handle ambiguity in problem statements?

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