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𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀

👉 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗲-𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 (20-30 mins) – Non-technical chat about your resume and background. Get ready to answer questions like Why #google? Why are you leaving your current job? What's your biggest achievement?

👉 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘀 (40-60 mins) – One or two phone screens with the hiring manager or a Google employee. You'll solve a coding question related to #datastructures and #algorithms on a shared Google Doc. Some questions on your background.

👉 𝗢𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗽 (4-5 interviews) – #coding and #systemdesign questions. Expect questions related to slightly harder data structure, algorithms, and system design.

Google evaluates candidates on 4 criteria:

𝟭) 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀
Googleyness means putting the user first, being friendly, approachable, humble, doing something nice for others, being proactive, and keeping your eye on the goal. You'll be judged for being a team player and having a bias for action.

𝟮) 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆
Your ability to solve problems and explain your thought process. Expect open-ended questions like how would you optimize this further? The interviewer wants to know how you learn and adapt to a situation.

𝟯) 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽
Your ability to take on tough problems and step back when it's not needed. They'll gauge if you can mobilize a team to solve a difficult problem. Get ready to answer questions like, how have you demonstrated leadership when you weren't the manager? how have you dealt with trade-offs and ambiguity?

𝟰) 𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗲-𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲
Is your technical expertise sufficient to drive impact at Google? How will you grow and scale with the company? Questions: Tell me about a recent/interesting project you worked on. How would you design a task scheduling system?

𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗧𝗶𝗽𝘀
* Data Structures - Practice Heaps, HashTable, Tree, Stack, Queue, Graph, and Trie.
* Algorithm - Practice Dynamic Programming, Quick-Sort, Breadth-first and Depth-first search.
* Explain your thought process - Practice describing your design decisions clearly and concisely.
* Collaborate – Don't forget to discuss tradeoffs, present multiple solutions, and take hints from the interviewer.

𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗻 #𝗟𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲
Happy Number (easy)
Minimum Meeting Rooms (medium)
Number of Islands (medium)
Merge Intervals (medium)
Number of Closed Islands (medium)
Making a Large Island (hard)
Employee Free Time (hard)
Alien Dictionary (hard)

𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
Design a Web Crawler
Design Google Docs
Design a Messenger
Design YouTube

𝗥𝗲𝗳:
1) Grokking the Coding Interview: https://lnkd.in/gkjFsTxa
2) Grokking the System Design Interview: https://lnkd.in/g4Wii9r7