I had an onsite interview. Here's what I remember: **Round 1:** The coding question was LeetCode 981. The follow-up questions were: How to handle 1M+ requests per second? How to ensure thread safety? What is the amortized time complexity? **Round 2:** This was...
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The interviewer framed the prompt around analyzing visitors moving through product categories. The question was Shortest Visitor Window With Enough Categories: https://www.chillinterview.com/learn/coding-interview-questions/shortest-visitor-window-with-enough-...
I was asked to design the core classes and interfaces for a Cart & Pricing Engine that handles item customizations, marketplace dynamics (surge pricing), promotions, and membership benefits. The system needed to support adding items, applying customizations, a...
I recently completed my interviews for a Mid-Level Software Engineer position. Overall, the experience was decent, and the questions were common interview questions. **Phone Screen:** I was asked a question similar to Top K. I used a priority queue to solve it...
I recently completed a coding round at Uber for a Senior SDE position. I had one hour to solve two coding questions. The first question was an easy problem related to when to buy and sell stock, which I recognized as a frequently asked interview question. The...
The coding question I got was: Give one permutation p of 1...n, a number k (1<=k<=n) is balanced if there is a subarray p[l...r] such that the subarray is a permutation of 1..k. Find out if k is balanced for every k and returns a binary string. **My approach:*...
The interviewer introduced the problem after asking briefly about my coursework and projects. The question was Shortest Playlist with K Unique Genres: https://www.chillinterview.com/learn/coding-interview-questions/shortest-playlist-with-k-unique-genres. I was...
The online assessment consisted of three questions on HackerRank. The questions involved a full-screen mode but did not require a camera. **Question 1:** Minimize operations to convert a positive integer `n` to 0. In each operation, you can either add or subtr...
I applied online for a general Software Engineer role. I had a phone screen and an online assessment (OA). **Phone Screen:** I was asked a frequently asked interview question(leetcode 1438) that I hadn't seen before. I intuitively wanted to use a heap, but the...
I applied through a referral in early January 2026. About a week later, I heard back from a recruiter and scheduled a chat for two days later. The recruiter asked about my years of experience, immigration status, skills, location preference, and compensation e...
