alt Hacker NewsOh I've had a terrible interview at Google too!
They told me it was all about pseudocode and how I think in advance, then on the actual interview they were being annoying about variable names and spaces after comma, while I was supposed to come up with some clever optimisation that boiled down to: "do you know this obscure theorem already? Cool you pass"
Same for me. I applied for engineering manager. Was told it was going to be a code review. I found a bunch of things that it could be improved, detected a very slow part / quadratic loop, but couldn't come up with the best algo to use. It was just leetcode in disguise.