Google Interview Experience 2024

In June 2024, during our company’s earnings call, a surprising announcement hit: the entire advertising division was being shut down. I had been working in that very division, and suddenly, my role — and career trajectory — were upended. I knew it was time to start looking for a new opportunity.

Naturally, I applied for a job at Google. After a few days a recruiter reached out to me to fill out the Google questionnaire (which consisted of work style questions).

After submitting the questionnaire in 2–3 days I was connected with another recruiter to schedule my onsite. This was my third time interviewing with Google so I skipped the Phone Screen.

However, this year Google/META are providing a free mock interview. I am also interviewing with META so I wanted to get both the “mocks” done before taken the on-site.

Mock Interview:

For the mock interview I was asked the

• House robber problem [LC 198] . I was able to code the recursive solution with memoization but the interviewer wanted me to give the DP solution so I tried actively working towards the solution. I got close before the time ran out. Additionally, the interviewer asked me about the space and runtime and I messed up the runtime. Which would be O(2^n) for my non-memoized solution.