How I Interviewed Candidates at Google

#neetcode #leetcode #python

[victortruong]

Imagine preping for Google interviews with neetcode videos, and then you realize that he is the one interviewing you

[yang]

When people are nervous emotionally, their logic brain doesnt work properly.

[puddleglum]

I’d say it’s probably nerves. In one of my final interview rounds with Google, my brain pretty much just stopped functioning correctly and I completely lost track and started making stupid mistakes. The problem was easy too—if I had just taken a deep breath and recomposed myself, I would’ve crushed it.

Luckily, it didn’t end up hurting me too bad because I accepted a really good offer at another company (got an exploding offer) before I could get through Google HC.

[sigfigronath]

im really loving this series of personal stories

[ness]

Had a moment like this where I messed up on a basic if statement that would normally be automatic for me. The nerves make your brain go completely empty. It’s like suddenly you’re thrown back to the first time you took AP CS and everything becomes cloudy

[enrico]

Id recognize neetcode's voice as soon as I heard it in an interview

[nomad]

One constructive criticism I have for Neetcode, is that problems should be ranked with regard to acceptance rate. This has many benefits: 1) solving problems on your own 2) getting confident 3) gradually being able to solve harder problems.

[Coderell]

I think adding more easy problems is a good idea.

[sjjujbt]

That sounds like nerves not lack of ability. When people get nervous they can even forget how to spell simple words.

[schan]

I prefer to be interviewed than interviewing others. I felt that I was more nervous than the candidates.

[SquirtleSquadee]

the dude who told you to pick harder questions explains everything about why programming interviews are a mess. too much focus on trivia and less on the skills that matter, like the ability to find solutions and execute on them with clean code. leetcode and sites like it, along with senior programmers like the one you mentioned need to stop existing

[venkateshchakravarti]

Exactly my situation where I know the solution but cant able to code in interview

[theophilusowusu]

This is exactly my life yesterday interview with Microsoft.

[joynuee]

How were you assigned to interview candidates? Was it randomly assigned? Or you could pick among candidates or nominate yourself to be considered as an interviewer for specific roles or areas. Also, do recent hires start interviewing candidates right away?

[xPussySlayerx]

At google I asked (find the avg of a set of numbers) as a warmup, I explicitly told them it’s not a trick question. I expected for this to take like 2-3 minutes but it usually ended up taking like 15m before I would abort the question and move onto the “real” question. Even the Stanford grads that I interviewed couldn’t do it within a few minutes. People really need to learn the basics.

[vabhav_rana]

bruh hey, any views on competitive programming for online assessments, really need tips for that

[iseeflowers]

This sounds really familiar. Oh that would be me 😅. so true.

[imtryinghere]

Htf do people interview at Google and can't write a for loop

[cyclox]

Nerves will get the best of you for sure but an for/while/if etc should be second nature and shouldn’t even been a barrier during an interview. I do fear that gpt/ai is messing a bit with people who are just getting into dev…. Why know how to write a for loop when it just happens automatically?

[dcgc]

What about coding for security engineering interview, how does it work?