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Easy Coding Question, Confusing Rename Follow-up, Rejected

GoogleSoftware Engineer · Senior+ · Technical Screen · Apr 2026

Coding: convert snake_case to camelCase (e.g. foo_bar -> fooBar). The input is guaranteed to be valid snake_case (no leading underscore, no trailing underscore, no double underscore). The coding part was easy, I banged it out in under twenty lines within a few minutes, though I did spend a bit of time clarifying what counted as valid snake_case input since I wasn't totally sure what the interview…

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