> "...instead of the 200+ hours I spent studying for Google"
That sounds like an exaggeration. I'd bet that very few people who work here had to spend that much time preparing...
That sounds like an exaggeration. I'd bet that very few people who work here had to spend that much time preparing...
I would have needed to study for a year or more of math since I never studied math in college, and I wasn't just out of college. Even someone with a computer science degree, once they've been a professional for a few years, would need to crack open college textbooks again to pass a Google interview.
Unless they did math as a hobby, which I will refrain from commenting on at this time.
A coworker of mine spent 5 years applying and reapplying and trying to improve their qualifications until they finally got hired.
I don't see any reason to question the statement that GP invested 200 hours.
When I started I didn't know what dynamic programming meant and I didn't know how to implement a breadth first search. (I thought it required a priority queue). So a lot of time was spent reviewing things like N Queens and dijkstra's algorithm because I hadn't touched it since university.
In the end I spent too much time on things I never got asked and I should have been practicing on paper instead of a computer.