Status: Senior Software Engineering with 10 Years of exp
Position: Google Software Engineering L4/L5
Current Role : Working as a Staff software engineer in the Bay Area.
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Date: May 13, 2019
Technical phone screen (1 hour & 10 mins) :
- Talked about my current role and responsibilities
- Questions on making API calls faster (in-memory data grids)
- Questions on microservices architecture.
Followed by coding exercise
- Populate the next right pointers in each node of the Binary search tree: https://leetcode.com/problems/populating-next-right-pointers-in-each-node-ii
- Vertical Order traversal of a Binary tree: https://leetcode.com/problems/vertical-order-traversal-of-a-binary-tree
Onsite Interview
Round 1:
- Build a time based key value store: https://leetcode.com/problems/time-based-key-value-store
I was able to solve the question in 10 mins, explained the time and space complexity and wrote the test case;
Do not forget corner cases with inputs.
Round 2: [Engineering Manager - Non coding Round]
- Cultural and behavioral interview
Node Clustering and Database replication
Geolocation based user tracking
Questions on microservices architecture and making API calls faster (in-memory data grids)
Round 3:
- This is a open ended question. I had to write the code on white board to build a find friends and mutual friends upto a depth
hin a social network graph.
Architecture design and questions for this application. extend the find friends logic to find friends at a particular geo Location.
Round 4:
- https://leetcode.com/problems/course-schedule
- https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-cost-to-hire-k-workers
Round 5:
- leadership + culture fit + conflict resolution within team and outside team
Overall experience was very positive.