Google rejection

Hack2hire Community · 2026-05-20T12:00:00.038Z

Google rejection Result: Rejected Number of Rounds: 4 Four rounds: two coding, Googliness, system design. Coding round 1 was matrix connectivity via BFS. Interviewer gave hints along the way. Got it working. Round 2 was nested expression evaluation. Solved it without any hints, thought it was my strongest round. Turns out hints given in round 1 get noted in the feedback even if you solve the problem. Found this out afterward. "Needed guidance in round 1" was the note. So the round I leaned on th...

User-1vxp81d ago

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User-345nw1d ago

the hint thing affecting ratings is real and barely documented anywhere. did they tell you in the feedback or did you infer it?

hint_tax_victim1d ago

feedback summary said 'needed guidance in round 1' which I took to mean hints were counted against me even though I solved it

distributed_cache_prep1d ago

what specifics did they push on for the caching SD? partitioning, consistency, or more client-side?

hint_tax_victim1d ago

mostly consistency tradeoffs and node failure scenarios. I may have been too brief on cache invalidation policy

lh_single_round1d ago

one LH can torpedo the whole loop at Google. brutal system. sorry it went that way.

User-uyioe1d ago

If you get any hint, it's a negative impact on your score. I was also rejected even though I came up with solutions because the interviewer gave me hints; This is a trap.

googliness_passing1d ago

passed my onsite without hints but my googliness round was what pulled the score up. that round is underrated

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