Google L4 Frontend Engineer Interview Experience (Offer)
Posted on 2024-11-15
Interview Rounds
Phone Screen
45 minutes. Standard LeetCode medium question involving trees. Asked about time complexity.
Onsite Round 1 (Coding)
DSA Round. Problem related to graph traversals (BFS). Had to handle edge cases for disconnected graphs.
Onsite Round 2 (Frontend Domain)
Implement a debouncer with a 'clean immediately' option. Then moved to a mini-app implementation: Build a star rating widget with accessibility support.
Onsite Round 3 (System Design)
Design Google Photos web UI. Focus on lazy loading, virtualization for thousands of photos, and caching strategies.
Googliness (Behavioral)
Standard behavioral questions. 'Tell me about a time you had a conflict with a manager'. Used STAR method.
Advice for future candidates
Focus heavily on DOM manipulation and accessibility for the frontend round. They care a lot about semantic HTML.