Medium Google Coding Interview With Ben Awad

In this video, I conduct a medium-difficulty Google coding interview with Ben Awad, a software engineer and tech YouTuber. As a Google Software Engineer, I interviewed dozens of candidates. This is an intermediate coding interview that you could get at Google or any other big tech company.

[clem]

So, should we do a hard Google coding interview next? 👀

[bawad]

I should stick to inverting binary trees

[harispapadopoulos]

There’s something about seeing people being nervous for a mock interview like this that’s so satisfying

[FrostTechSoftware]

Always love how Ben Awad deduces his problems. 50% Troll 50% Serious

[morenokv]

Please keep doing these! This is great and love hearing the thought process

[christsciple]

Watched this the day after you released Clement. During an interview with a fintech startup a week later, they gave me this exact problem. I was able to remember and successfully work through roughly 80% of it. Got offered the job and ultimately rejected their offer because one interviewer who would have been my daily collaborator, was rude and demeaning. All in all, this is great information and a great video you've produced here!

[TechWithTim]

Damn, this is a great coding interview question! ;)

[ogbuzzy]

I absolutely love these videos! Do more of these interviews !

[TheKy]

really love this format! so entertaining! very interesting to see "live" how ppl approach a problem

[rajatsharma]

You guys are just incredible and an inspiration, that helps me keep on learning. Thanks for sharing!!

[cgerman]

I think this shows that you need to practice specifically for these coding interviews. It doesn't matter if you are a programmer or you can code or if you are smart and you have experience. Ben is all these things. You need to practice problems like these to get a job at a company that does these interviews. It's like preparing for an exam. Even if you do ok like Ben did someone will do better because he spent hours and hours practicing. So many people want to get in these companies that it is very competitive. It's just how it is

[alsoSeeb]

Almost two months ago, I started this video but didn't finish it because I wanted to solve this problem for myself. I didn't find a way to do it on my own, and both the problem and the video sat in the back of my mind for weeks. Today, after quite a lot of reading and practice (on other problems!), I returned to the problem with a fresh point of view and solved it in an hour (plus a few minutes), in one sitting, without any outside reference. It's been tough measuring my progress over the last few months, but thanks for giving me a point of reference!

[madomation]

Me after 5 minutes: I don't think I am made for this

[madomation]

I like how both of them interview each other and post the video on same time

[SkaiCloud]

I'm addicted to these mock interview. Thank you for these quality content.

[xgx]

This is extremely inspiring some how… Well done.

[whatsnextforkev]

for the "is_border" and "is_border_matrix" functions, since returning True and False over an If statement is redundant, I would have simply done a one-liner: "return <condition>". That would tell me he's been through a number of code reviews or is part of a larger team.

I've done my share of interviewing candidates as a Senior Eng at a huge retail company and even for me, a Google interview is anxiety-inducing.

[felipe_ai]

I could watch this 2 forever lol, amazing, entertaining and learned a lot :)

[ninasinthehaus]

thank you for making these videos! I solved this problem by modifying the grid to have perimeter of 1s (so both len(grid) and len(grid[0]) increase by 2) and running BFS on the grid. After finding an island, all other islands are changed to 0s. Pausing the video after you explain the question and talking out loud "back" to you has been so so helpful.

[MichikoHoshi]

I somehow stumble upon this video and I really enjoyed it. Watching you two talk through the process was very insightful and it made it very easy to comprehend more so than if this was just a tutorial video.