I received a phone screen from a Principal AS from the Dynamics group in late August 2025. I felt it went well, but I didn't hear back. Then, I interviewed with an Indian manager, also a Principal, from another Dynamics group. The process went smoothly, but ag...
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I was asked about my perspective on the applications of large language models (LLMs). Additionally, I received a hard-level algorithm problem which I struggled with.
I had an onsite interview for a Software Engineer role. The design question involved creating a storage system capable of querying all words within a specified lexicographical range. For example, given the data set {"aa", "aaa", "ac", "f", "z"}: - Input [a, b]...
I completed the online assessment as practice. **Question 1:** The problem involves maximizing coin collection in a one-dimensional board game, where tokens can only move three steps to the right. **Question 2:** The second question is grouping two-digit numbe...
Here's my recollection of the problems and my solutions: 1. The first problem was solved using the prefix sum approach. I directly applied the prefix sum technique to find the minimum value and returned either `1 - min_val` or `1`. 2. The second problem involv...
The coding question I got was: Given n users and m songs, each user i has a preference list pref[i] (containing a permutation of all song numbers from 0 to m-1). Rules: 1. If a < b, user i prefers a. 2. Song x beats y: when more than half of the users prefer x...
The interview focused on both coding and theoretical machine learning concepts. For the coding part, I had to write code to generate all possible combinations of hyperparameters and design effective test cases. I made sure to consider edge cases and boundary c...
The prompt was to implement an expiring key-value store with a follow-up on how to delete expired keys. **My Approach:** 1. I chose to use a hash map to store the key-value pairs along with their expiration timestamps. 2. For deleting expired keys, I proposed...
The technical phone screen involved implementing an in-memory file management system that supports CRUD operations and version control. I focused on using appropriate data structures for efficient storage and retrieval of file data. I also emphasized the impor...
