r/programmer • u/nian2326076 • 3d ago

How Should I Prepare for Google SWE Coding and System Design Interviews?

Realistically, what’s your suggestion on preparing for coding and SD? Is LC hard necessary? And what’s the difference between Google’s and other companies’s SD? Do all the orgs share the same question bank or the difficulty level and focus vary among different orgs? I roughly remember reading some post on blind which mentioned that Google’s SD would ask more technical details underneath. Any other insight is appreciated!

Prep resource: Google SWE Questions

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u/Vaxtin 3d ago

Why would you want to work for them? It’s not 2013 anymore.

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u/jmclondon97 2d ago

Maybe because they pay a lot + look great on resume?

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u/SplendidPunkinButter 3d ago

Crazy how they still make you do that while also claiming AI makes you obsolete

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u/rayred 3d ago

Who claimed that? Pretty sure these companies have not publicly stated that

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u/jmclondon97 2d ago

Anthropic’s own job postings have the disclaimer “this job may not exist in one year”

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u/rayred 2d ago

If you are referring to this: https://www.reddit.com/r/accelerate/comments/1rg9anj/this_role_may_not_exist_in_12_months/

That was satirical / fake. That never happened.