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by hello_moto 2305 days ago
Know a few ex coworkers and friends of friend who after multiple failures eventually got accepted.

Their strategy is the same across the board: practice makes perfect (a.k.a leetcode). Don't give up, keep trying.

You are well aware that there's a big industry around interview preps for Hi-Tech BigCos and Gayle herself is one of the implicit founding of this industry right?

Pre-Leetcode/HackerRank the kind of people who got accepted to Google are mostly their kind: ACM/TopCoder and most folks who grew up/go to school in Bay Area because well duh... It's what they do everyday: practicing leetcode style problem solving. The Stanford/UC Berkeley folks got in because well... Interview questions are shared among interns because there's no database like today's LeetCode.