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Ran Out of Time on an Onsite Coding Round, Talked Through the Answer Instead

GoogleSoftware Engineer · Onsite · Jul 2026

Just finished my Google onsite. Something came up in one of the coding rounds, and I want to ask the folks and interviewers here on the forum how they'd read this: r2, first question: the piano-finger-movement problem (sliding window, similar to finding a monotonic interval / window coverage). First part: I wrote the code fast, dry-ran the interviewer's three test cases live plus a couple of edge…

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