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Google · Software Engineer · Mid-Level

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Nov 1
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Overall Experience

A two-round Google L4 phone screen. The first round combined coding questions with behavioral questions about a project deep dive, collaboration and project management, and conflicts and tradeoffs. The second round was a solution design interview followed by a coding problem. The candidate reported passing the screen.
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Interview Process (2 rounds)

Round 1 of 2: Coding / DSA

60 min

Question 1

Medium
Visible people in a line: given an array of heights representing people standing from left to right, return the number of other people the last person can see. Two people can see each other if no person between them is strictly taller than both of them. The last person looks only to the left and does not count themselves. Example: [1, 10, 6, 7, 9, 8, 2, 4, 3, 5] gives 6, because the person of height 5 can see the people of heights 3, 4, 2, 8, 9, and 10.

Experience

The candidate's approach and outcome were not reported.

Question 2

Medium
For every person in the line, compute how many other people that person can see, and return an array of counts. The same visibility rule applies: an intermediate person blocks visibility only when strictly taller than both endpoints. The viewing directions and size limits were not specified.

Experience

The candidate's approach and outcome were not reported.

Question 3

Medium
Behavioral questions covering a project deep dive, collaboration and project management, and conflicts and tradeoffs. The specific prompts were not reported.

Experience

The candidate's response was not reported.
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