RejectedOnsite

L4 Onsite, Rejected After Falling Back to Brute Force

GoogleSoftware Engineer · Onsite · May 2026

I interviewed for Google L4 a few months ago and got rejected after the onsite coding rounds. Sharing it here as a reference for anyone coming after me. R1: Merge two nodes (each node has three fields: name, value, children). The core rule is to use t1's node order but t2's node values. 1. In the merged node, name comes from t1 and value comes from t2. 2. Children with the same name are matched o…

Shared by a candidate · reported May 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.