RejectedOnsite

OA, Two Virtual Rounds, Onsite in NYC, Rejected in January

GoogleSoftware Engineer · New Grad · Onsite · Dec 2025

This is a much-delayed writeup. I applied in early November 2025, got the OA two days later, and finished it that same night — they told me I passed right away and scheduled R1. A week later they gave me the specific R1 time. Coding and BQ were both on the same day. R1 tech was basically the exact LeetCode 295 (Find Median from Data Stream, two heaps). After I finished, we did a dry run plus comp…

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