Making mistakes is "incapability" according to Google 🫣
I reflected back on my L4 Google interviews. Although I made minor mistakes and rectified by myself without additional hints from interviewer, they were looked upon as incapability. I wasn’t even considered for L3, though I solved all the questions with minimal hints with correct DS. Follow ups I was able to solve and discuss the right approach too. Is this fair ?
Hey! Sorry to hear about your bad experience.
However, can you please share as to how much work ex do you have and any of your lc cp stats.
I almost have 3 years work experience, with 2y in Amazon. What is lc, cp ?
Interviewer's ego. Bad luck, my friend. Trust me, luck matters and contributes to 50% chances of getting into google
Rejection happened by the interviewer- likely fair. Google wants think out loud and candidate following a systematic way of solving. Following can be the way:
1. Model inputs and outputs and align that you have understood the problem and capable of thinking diverse set of inputs
2. Problem solving approach(s) + Data Structures
3. Time/Space Complexity
4. Code
5. Error scenarios and handling
It might happen just out of pressure or habit or rushing towards solutioning.
Don't take Google rejection so seriously also. It is their way of evaluating and doesn't at all mean that you are bad.
Solving approach and DS was optimal. I have given correct space and time complexities. Even discussed with interviewer. And I did think out loud.
Once I missed an edge case where inputs and outputs were not provided for the question and I figured the edge case by myself and corrected my code.
I’m just surprised.
Bad luck then. Atleast 1 out of 5 interviewer, I have faced in most companies including Google, is weird. If I got all 5 good, I myself make terrible mistake.
Anyways, move on and hope for good in future.
Aggh its just sad isn't it - terrible to make failures seem bad
Society should celebrate calculated risks
