He asked me nothing except my name and jumped into the question to save time. Moreover, you dont need to have 100% of the preferred qualifications mentioned. I felt like I did very poorly on this just because of the help I had to get.I'd rate my perforamnce on this a 1.5/5Interview 2: CodingLeetcode style problem. Even if you arent sure, make sure you answer instead of going silent and reason for the specific answer. I ended up talking about a bunch of test cases for this question, I didn't write any code for these test cases but I covered most edge and corner cases. With you every step of your journey. Oh nice! The applications usually open during mid-August and September for the APAC region specifically for SWE and AE roles. A portfolio site would be a wonderful way to showcase your work as a developer. I could solve the first question in 5-10 minutes. I'll update this post then. Not Leetcode style, represented more of a real world problem. Depending on the situation, they might implement vendor-sourced enterprise software, configure the software, customize and integrate it with other internal systems. For further actions, you may consider blocking this person and/or reporting abuse. The interview was scheduled for the same day at night. It'll automatically reset after few hours. So insightful and I love the memes you added in between! Thank you. I thought the question was kind of fun and wasn't hard but the class interface and function behavior tripped me up. From what youre describing sounds like a distributed web crawler or something similar. After two months approx., I received an email from a recruiter at Google on November 11, 2021, stating that I was receiving the mail because I applied via one of Google's Hiring sources and was shortlisted for an internship opportunity for Summer 2022 for Application Engineer role. For the next half an hour, I continued with the next question. How to Optimize Your Workflow with VSCode Shortcuts, LOC is an important metric to measure developer productivity, Prepare for Your Google Interview: System Design, Data Structures: Pseudocode approach with C++, Abdul Bari's mastering DSA course on Udemy. Self-taught So, summing up, this is my journey in getting the opportunity from the worlds most famous tech company. At the end of every interview, interviewers will ask if we have any questions. Check out mine here. I interpreted the whole question as an object oriented design problem and solved it as such. DEV Community 2016 - 2022. I'll be getting feedback from my recruiter on the results in two days, I'll update this post on what happens.Any thoughts?TC: 165k5 yoe #, Go to company page I ended up finishing the problem, but with lots of direction from the interviewer. Thank you! Make sure you have good questions about the role or what youre curious to know about them.

I enjoy sharing my skills with others, contributing, and encouraging Open Source. Glad someone appreciated them. Hackerrank and Leetcode are highly recommended platforms by everyone. Ive never explicitly prepared for an organization somewhat never expected a call from Google. National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Developer Documenting my journey and sharing with the world what I learn, mostly on programming Currently building Brytebook. Quite honestly I thought the question could have been written a bit better, some of the behavior didn't match the way real world RPC calls behaved, hence why I got tripped up. NOW is never too late regarding when to start the preparation. If you have the curiosity and passion for learning and experimenting, everything will fall in the right place at the right time. I'll be an intern this summer'22. Boiled down to loop detection, dictionary data structure problem. Also, was it a remote position? Speak out loud throughout the interview so that the interviewer is on the same line with you. Having experience working with full-fledged web development projects earlier, the question was easier to solve with minimal system design knowledge. Hey congrats! Application engineers play a specific role in developing, deploying, and supporting Googles internal business applications. Uuhmm, your portfolio returns a 403. Even if youre not into web development, there are a lot of no-code platforms and basic web dev templates which make your work easy. System Design: DBMS concepts, SQL, and some experience with app/web design I am a tech enthusiast who loves to learn and explore new things. I asked my recruiter regarding the details of the interview. and only accessible to Divya Sri Darimisetti. I knew how to solve it but I had trouble with wrapping my head around the implementation details. Ever since Ive received an internship offer from Google, there have been a few questions from curious individuals who wanted to know about my preparation strategy and the application process. I really connected with my interviwer and was able to come up with some fantastic examples for the questions asked. I was asked for basic details, a resume, transcripts, and a link to any website like a portfolio in the application form. We're a place where coders share, stay up-to-date and grow their careers. Each interview was scheduled for 45 min with one Google employee. DEV Community A constructive and inclusive social network for software developers. Which goggle office you applied to/working at now? Thanks. Usually, its only two rounds. Love to create stuff. I couldnt complete the architecture part, so I felt I messed it up and didnt expect further process. Gaurav Sen's System Design Playlist I think I did well but I dont have any way of judging my performance. Once unpublished, all posts by irsayvid will become hidden and only accessible to themselves. Are you sure you want to hide this comment? I was still distracted from the poor performance of my first interview, I ended up chosing an inefficient datastructure (not a dict) for this because of the question wording.

I wrote a couple tests. Yeah thats good to hear so looks like the cooldown period is 9 months and you did very good in Behavioral part of it and thats awesome! Around 70% would be great to apply because you can learn the rest 30% on the go provided you are interested in that area. System design rounds are more like a conversation. Nothing like I've seen before. yeah that's what I'm setting my expectations for. It didnt seem hard. I am Divya Sri Darimisetti, a student currently pursuing my BTech in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. Appreciate it.How was the system design round? I think I could have optimized it a little bit more but the interviewer didn't seem interested in this since the function wasn't going to be run more than once in a while and the max N would be would be about 50. After approx. Made with love and Ruby on Rails. I cannot disclose the questions due to an NDA signed earlier. I binge-watched and made notes from Gaurav Sens YouTube playlist. It will become hidden in your post, but will still be visible via the comment's permalink. I felt that itd be hard to go through the third round since Ive read that theyll grill you and might not extend an offer in an article. I was pretty disappointed in my performance of this question too. Did much better on this one, though the interviewer gave me a pretty large hint prematurely. Going to try again in 9 months. We had a time crunch. Though I could write an O(n) approach solution, the interview had an O(logN) solution on his mind which I couldnt figure out during the given time. Only got to the root of the algorithmic section at the end. Later, I was asked a question from DSA. I had to design a system that collected weather information from weather sensors across California. If you prefer books, GFG's DSA self-paced course (in CPP and java), Abdul Bari's mastering DSA course on Udemy (in C and CPP). One in particular the interviewer commented on how he liked my test approach.I'd rate my performance as 5/5Interview 5: BehavioralStandard behavioral, this one went fantastic. She provided me with material on how to approach application/system design. It was scheduled for the next day in the afternoon. I prefer the CTCI book and GFG self-paced course. Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use. This interview was one of the friendly interviews I experienced. If irsayvid is not suspended, they can still re-publish their posts from their dashboard. Usually, there are two rounds, one on system design and the other on problem-solving with DSA, designing and implementing data structures algorithms. GFG is good for clearing out concepts and implementations. I have a hard time differentiating leetcode hard vs medium. Hey! Each individual prefers a different one. Ive confirmed that I will be available. Code, Communities and Music sum up my life.

Theyve asked for my resume and based on my interest and capabilities, and they said they would follow up with details of the interview. If they were hard they were on the easier side if hard.

Ive applied for the Application Engineering internship on Sept 5th, 2021. I have onsite in few weeks. Would like to know how are you doing at your job at Google. DSA: There are a lot of resources out there. We'll see about the real feedback that I get from my recruiter on Monday. Ive received a follow-up mail from a recruiting coordinator in the evening stating that my interview was scheduled for the next day and to confirm if I would be available at that specific time. Can i message you? For now, this brief overview would do since elaborating about the responsibilities will make it lengthy and isnt essential in this context. I did better than the first question though.I'd rate my performance as a 3/5Interview 3: CodingDFS + Substring problem. I came up with a pretty clever (n/2)^2 algorithm. ten days, I got an email from my recruiter congratulating me and asking to share my acceptance by the EOD (end of the day). Do you know what would qualify for a downlevel vs straight up no hire? Once unpublished, this post will become invisible to the public Thank you and What org did you interview for? My first interviewer loved my question since he had never experienced anyone ask him the same one to date.

So, this blog is undoubtedly for you if you are like me! Im not sure how to evaluate system design rounds. I was just about to come to that conclusion before he gave me a hint, I feel like this will reflect poorly on my performance in this interview. I didnt expect the interview to be so near, so all I did was go through my notes till whatever I could cover before the time. The whole interview had two questions. The interviewer was friendly like the previous two. Prepping for Amazon LP questions really helped hereI'd rate my performance as 5/5SummaryOut of the 5 interviews, if I were to evaluate myself yes/no/maybe decisions (no hire, lean no hire, lean hire, hire) I'd say [no hire, lean no hire, lean hire, hire, hire] for each of the interviews. I was satisfied with my performance but had no hope. If you arent specific, look out for posts on social media like LinkedIn and join social groups on telegram where they would frequently post such opportunities. I am neither a competitive coder nor a GSoCer. Great job, Lets do some mock interviews if you are still preparing and let me know. While preparing, learn how to build a particular data structure from scratch since few companies ask such questions. I could get from his smile and all the best for you next round that Ive done well. Ive decided to give the interview to learn and enjoy the process without any hope for an offer. I couldnt present my approach in a structured way to the interviewer but made sure that I cleared my questions and stayed on the same line with the interviewer. It wouldnt be hard to check once a week if youre organization-specific.

Oh wow I am sorry to hear that did you get any feedback? Once suspended, irsayvid will not be able to comment or publish posts until their suspension is removed. The interviewer was straightforward. Really well written and very useful! Thanks!, Congrats!! Dont hesitate to apply for companies and fellowships thinking youre unqualified. So, I decided to write a blog to cover all the queries. Through a telegram group (username: @internshipandhackathon), I got to know about SWE internship openings and checked out for other roles. I would like to mention two points before going ahead. I was nervous, but the interview took the first 5-10 minutes to do an introduction and ensured Im comfortable.

Your work speaks for you, and most companies do resume shortlisting before proceeding further, so maintain an excellent standard resume with 2-4 good projects, extracurricular activities, and achievements make sure the content in your resume aligns with the requirements of the role. Maybe a system with a primary node and multiple worker nodes. During my process, I have reached out to a couple of awesome folks on LinkedIn and got some amazing set of resources which I am compiling here. I knew the interviewer wasnt satisfied in the first half because he couldnt get what I was trying to do and could point out errors, but in the last 15 minutes, I explained to him about my approach, and he was impressed by the way I approached the problem. Go to company page I didnt expect another coding round since I messed up the design round. I am a Sophomore pursuing undergraduate majoring in Computer Science Engineering. He just asked if I wanted to say anything about myself, so I gave a brief intro, after which the interviewer started the round.

I enjoy creating applications that live on the internet and can be accessed by everyone. Unlike previous rounds, I received this mail after a week. In case you want to know something more feel free to comment down below or reach me out on LinkedIn. Coming from a non-CS background, I was unprepared for this round since I never studied any system design concepts nor explored that part of CS myself. Thanks a lot!

They can still re-publish the post if they are not suspended. Hackerrank, Leetcode, and GFG are good platforms for beginners. Capital One, Phone Screen:Leetcode Medium/Hard, BFS Graph problemVirutal On-Site:Interview 1 : CodingDistributed Systems BFS problem. After around ten days, Ive received another email from a coordinator saying that they were happy to connect me with another team member for an interview. I had a phase in my life where I had more rejections than the hens in a hen house, starting from a few startups, fintechs, and even some student leadership programs. Due to high traffic, the quota got exhausted. I hope you learned something new from my experience and even got the confidence. I asked the interviewer about the better approach, and he said to take it as homework and left a slight hint. Other times, theyll primarily create custom-built software. I applied to Google India. It went well when I look back now. If its wrong or you can have a better approach, the interviewer will help you out or ask questions to help you achieve the clarity needed. I have an onsite next two weeks any tips? I think I got the most optimal or near most optimal performance out of this as well.I'd rate my performance as 4/5Interview 4: CodingLogically complex problem, not leetcode. Once unsuspended, irsayvid will be able to comment and publish posts again. Thanks for sharing your experience . Built on Forem the open source software that powers DEV and other inclusive communities. Make sure to clarify everything with your interviewer. I know you might have a thought popping in your mind which says, Do we need to check the career sites of various websites frequently? My answer depends on if you are organization-specific or interested in various areas. University College of Engineering BIT-campus, Anna University. Google, Update: Didnt make it to the hiring committee. Junior Frontend Developer | Photographer The interviewer asked a few questions to ensure all critical areas were covered.