I’ve decided to write this post to say to everyone that nothing is impossible, and as a personal experience so anyone can benefit from it when needed, before you read and get very excited, I didn’t  got the job a while ago, Google was hiring people as junior software... [More]

Google telephonic Interview 1. Asked about my project. Prepare well to answer any type of questions that may arise in your project.They will just ask to explain about any one of the projects listed in your resume. 2. In a plane, n points are given i.e. the input is (x1,y1), (x2,y2)&helli... [More]

Google is famous for its hard interview questions . When I lived in the USA I used to listen to Car Talk on NPR, a radio show that had its own hard weekly questions in its "puzzler" segment.. When I was browsing the Car Talk web site I saw their hardest "puzzler"&nbs... [More]

Hey guys, have you seen such interview before? American president tries to be hired by Google. It sounded very interesting to me. It even includes an interview question about sort algorithms! (It also related to some of the issues brought up in the early hours of last Beery Friday)

Phone Interviews The first two phone interviews were back-to-back and lasted 45 minutes each with a 15 minute break in-between. Both interviews had a mix of questions pertaining to programming, algorithm design, work term experiences, school projects and fundamental programming and computi... [More]

All the below questions are to be done in O(n) time complexity. 1>Given an array of size n-1 whose entries are integers in the range [1, n], find an integer that is missing. Use only O(1) space and treat the input as read-only. 2>Given an array of size n-2 whose entries are integ... [More]

This past week I have not done a single thing. I have no cool photos to share, and not much interesting news...well some interesting news, but not NEARLY as interesting as the rest of my entries have been, though I have an excuse. I finally went to my first History Through Film class...which ... [More]

Class, here is an organizational issue that we will be discussing this semester. How can economics help explain individual behavior suggest as hiring or resigning. In particular, we will talk about incentives and informational asymmetries. The article is from TechCrunch, one of my favori... [More]

A couple years ago, there were some HR trolls or maybe some some resume bots that figured out that I went to MIT and that I was a software engineer from my blog (yes, this one). A recruiter from Google emailed me asking me whether I'd be interested in a position at Google. Um yes, isn'... [More]

Dec 1st, 4:00 pm. I had a paper that morning, on 'Object Oriented Modeling'. Didn't sleep last night preparing for the paper. So, my condition wasn't its best for the interview. They called at ten past four in the evening. The interviewer wanted to start off with the interview... [More]

Nov 12th, 5:00 pm. This one was interesting. Not the interview itself, but some of the events related to it. I had put up a status message on my orkut profile - "Nov 12th - Big Day.." Since i thought this interview was final phone screen and would decide on my onsite chances, i conside... [More]

Nov 3rd, 5:00 pm. I was a little nervous. As for pre-interview preps, i took all my important papers (projects, semester mark sheets, etc) and placed them on my table. I had also some of my codes opened on my laptop screen for quick reference, if needed. Though, none of such preps ever was of ... [More]

I had a recent opportunity to do an interview with Google India! While preparing for the interview, the one thing that i would constantly look for, on the internet, was blogs on Google Interview Experiences so that i could learn about the pattern of the interview and the questions. Well, now ... [More]

Was surfing through some blogs , and found this one interesting. Some of the questions asked by Google Inc. in their interview : 1. How many golf balls can fit in a school bus? 2. You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your ... [More]

This was originally posted in mathNEWS, a publication put out by students at the University of Waterloo. Pretty interesting stuff, good to read up on if you are going for a high end Google-type job. Please describe a data structure that accomplishes the functions INSERT and FIND-MEDIAN in ... [More]