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Google · Software Engineer · Mid-Level
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Nov 1
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Overall Experience
A Google software engineering phone screen with two back-to-back 45-minute interviews. The first was behavioral and covered disagreements with colleagues, conflicts with other teams, and managing an uncooperative junior colleague. The second was a coding problem to implement an HTTP router that registers handlers and looks up handlers for request paths using a prefix tree.
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Posted by interviewdInterview Process (2 rounds)
Round 1 of 2: Behavioral
45 min
Question 1
MediumHow would you handle a disagreement with a colleague?
Experience
The candidate's response was not reported.
Question 2
MediumHow would you handle a conflict between your team and another team?
Experience
The candidate's response was not reported.
Question 3
MediumHow would you handle a junior colleague you mentor who does not accept guidance or work assignments?
Experience
The candidate's response was not reported.
45 min
Question 1
MediumImplement an HTTP router with two functions: register a handler, and get the handler for a request path. Some handlers have parameters and some do not. A string-splitting function may be assumed to be provided.
Experience
The candidate used a prefix tree whose nodes store handler and parameter pairs. Registration traversed the tree, and lookup used depth-first search.
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