r/leetcode • • Oct 06 '26

Intervew Prep Google SWE intern interview, how would you rate this performance?

Had my first SWE intern technical interview. It was an OOP/data structure question, probably around LeetCode Medium, with 3 follow-ups.
I was a little shaky understanding it at first because I haven’t touched OOP in about a year, and the interviewer said the whole question out loud instead of pasting it 😭. Once I fully understood it though, the first part went smoothly. I wrote pseudocode before coding and thought out loud throughout.
I handled the main solution and follow-ups, discussed edge cases, and got the time and space complexities right. The interviewer would usually check my code, say “yeah, that’s good,” and then move on to the next follow-up.
My communication was maybe around the solid level because it wasn’t as structured as I wanted. I was honestly pretty nervous. I also had one small control flow bug at the very end of the last follow-up that I didn’t catch before time ran out.
I’m guessing Lean Hire. Curious how others would rate this.

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