I got a call from google and scheduled an interview. If any of you attended a google interview, can you share the interview questions, especially c language and system design questions?
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I am the OP and couldn't go through it.
Google interview is over. in domain interview, I told them I didn’t hear about few things that they expect me know. Will that be an issue?
They’re eventually going to hit you with the “A friend asks you where they should start a bakery business. What do you tell them?” questions.
Just know there is not right or wrong answer to anything you say.
And that’s the point.
So when you make it through the interview process and they ultimate decide whether to hire you based on your ethnicity, gender, political beliefs, etc. (because Google cares a lot about that), they can cite how you answered these nebulous questions as the reason why/why not they hired you.
And since there’s no right or wrong answer, they can never be incorrect about their assessment on your answer.
I spent over a year in total fixing use after free bugs and race conditions because so few people at Cisco learned how to design interconnected data structures to remove elements deterministically so that’s a good place for many to start. Also, knowing quality metrics beyond KLOCS would show you know something that has occurred in the past 50 years. Know why it’s better to use functional decomposition and refactoring to reduce the size of a code base rather than cutting and pasting code over 1,000 files at a time. Heck, know what functional decomposition and refactoring are. Learn what happens when you move code out of an environment where malloc is expected to zero memory to an environment where it doesn’t where calloc could have been used to do the job correctly everywhere. Learn how to grasp a fourth bullet point without having a conniption.
tl;dr: learn anything that is taught in a good high school that most Cisco software engineers with decades of experience will never know.
They may ask you why you're looking for a job.
You might want to tell them at the interview that the current company is so toxic and intolerable and just time-wasting, filled with 20+ year-tenure managers bossing around without experiencing any other company hence no skill no expert that I'm lookin for a job.
Dunno about their interview questions, but Google is sending some food trucks to our company parking lot this Tuesday for some event. They better be good, do not disappoint me Google! 8^)
I had this interview question at Google: what's the difference between a=1 and a==1
Tell me about a time when your customer had a gnarly TAC case where support dropped the ball and your AM put all escalation responsibilities on you. How did you help the customer get the helped they needed to resolve the problem?
I can run, but I have no feet. I have a bed, but I do not sleep. I have a mouth, but I can not eat. What am I?