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Role: Software Engineer

College: Not Specified

Interview Date: March 2020

Interview Type: Full-Time

Result: Not Specified

Difficulty: Medium-Hard

Rounds: Online Assessment, 4 virtual rounds

Topics Asked: Resume/Projects, Data Structures, Algorithms, REST, Front-end technologies

Experience:

This candidate, with one year of Software Engineer experience, went through an online assessment followed by four virtual interview rounds on Zoom.

• Online Assessment: Consisted of four questions on CodeSignal, where the candidate scored 834/850.
• Round 1 (Virtual): Started with an introduction and discussion of projects on the resume. Coding questions included:
  • Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters
  • Word Break II (brute force solution coded in 10 minutes)
• Round 2 (Virtual): Began with questions about REST and other front-end technologies. Coding questions included:
  • Longest increasing subarray in an array (including time complexity)
  • Implement stack (push, pop, isEmpty) using a LinkedList
  • Implement queue using the stack implemented (including time complexity)
• Round 3 (Virtual): A coding question was asked:
  • Longest Palindromic Substring
  The candidate finished with 25 minutes remaining in the 45-minute interview, using the extra time to ask questions about the company, team, and products.
• Round 4 (Virtual): This round included two coding questions:
  • Valid Parentheses
  • N-Queens II