Google (Senior) Software Engineer interview questions
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Google in Oct 2022
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Only one question was asked first round LC Medium - Hard Question was based Bases on the concept of intervals needed to show the approach based on intervals First brute force then optimized approach
The interview was a problem solving coding challenge with a leetcode medium level problem to solve in Java. The interviewer was focused on the best time complexity we can do to solve it.
The interview process was awesome. Google is very helpful in some area and in some could be improved. I was a little scared but it was very smooth, and easy if you know this stuff. Very friend