Phone Screening
Questions: About trees and islands with 2 follow-ups.
Candidate's Approach
Initially thinking of a complicated solution, the interviewer prompted me to think of something simpler. I was able to solve everything on my own after that.
Interviewer's Feedback
Personal Rating: Hire/Strong Hire.
Onsite
Round 1
Questions: About interns and flats. Greedy.
Candidate's Approach
Did somewhat poorly; didn’t ask an important clarifying question in the beginning. The interviewer pointed it out once I had coded my entire solution. Implemented a fix but realized a bug in that too. Rushed to write the correct solution in the last 5 minutes, managed to but sacrificed code quality in the process.
Interviewer's Feedback
Personal Rating: Lean No Hire/ Lean Hire.
Round 2
Questions: About intervals, difference array related. 2 follow-ups.
Candidate's Approach
Got the idea almost immediately, solved everything without any assistance.
Interviewer's Feedback
Personal Rating: Strong Hire.
Round 3
Questions: About digits and subsequences with 1 follow-up.
Candidate's Approach
Solved the original question on my own, required a small hint for coming up with the solution for the follow-up. The interviewer said coding it is not required even though 10 minutes were left, I’m assuming the follow-up was just for brownie points.
Interviewer's Feedback
Personal Rating: Strong Hire.
Googlyness
Questions: Situational questions, nothing special.
Candidate's Approach
Feedback is good and we are proceeding with team matching.
Interviewer's Feedback
No feedback provided.
Team Matching
Questions: Questions were about work, projects, and some HR type questions.
Candidate's Approach
30 mins after the call I was informed team matching was successful, I received an offer 2 days later.
Interviewer's Feedback
No feedback provided.