Rawdogged

Just wrapped up my interviews for an early career role at Google. I went in with minimal preparation, having done around 30 problems, mostly on strings and arrays. I didn’t touch graphs, trees, or DP, but I still managed to perform decently. Interview Questions: 1️⃣ Binary search problem (fairly challenging) 2️⃣ Graph problem – The interviewer asked if I was familiar with graphs, and since I hadn’t practiced them recently, they provided a helper function for traversal. 3️⃣ Heap problem Nothing too crazy overall. The interviewers were all nice and supportive. I’m almost certain I won’t be moving forward, but it was a great experience. That said, I wasn’t highly motivated to prepare since I have a good team at another FAANG, where I’m working toward a promotion this year. If I joined Google now, I’d be starting from scratch. I’ll aim to join Google as an L4 next year, with better preparation. BTW anyone know what the cooldown period is? I heard it was 6 months or 12 months. Anyone know why some get 6 months or less?