SleepyPotato
SleepyPotato
4mo

Second round of Google interviews done. What are my chances?

The first round of interviews went pretty badly, as the interviewer was not ready to listen to my solutions and did not even give a single hint. The second one went somewhat better. I was able to break the problems into subproblems, but I somehow rushed into my logic since we only had 45 minutes for each interview.

In the middle, I noticed that my logic would not work, so I had to rewrite it with a different approach, which was correct. By that time, we were almost three minutes past the end of the interview. The feedback he gave was that we were able to dry run, which is good, but I should not have rushed into a solution without proper dry running initially. This way, we could have discussed other approaches as well, but we could not discuss time and space complexity.

The role I am interviewing for is Applications Engineer, so I am not sure what the bar is. What do you guys think?

One thing to note is that at the end, he said Good luck for your next round of interviews.

YOE: 3.2

Reject. There is no point in following up with the recruiter if you don’t hear back
Might pass you to the next rounds
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SquishyRaccoon
SquishyRaccoon
4mo

Do they ask you to write and run your code on a compiler ? And do dry run have an particular test cases to pass?

SleepyPotato
SleepyPotato

No compiler and test cases. I was asked to come up with the test cases and dry run my logic in the doc shared by the interviewer.

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