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...
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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...
The phone screen question was LeetCode 230. The first onsite round is Leetcode 549. The second onsite round was to design a meeting scheduler. I also had a system design round where I was asked to design an online shopping cart, supporting many features. I nee...
The coding question I got was: ``` Problem Description: You are given a 2D grid of lowercase letters with `m` rows and `n` columns, along with a target string `word`. Your task is to determine whether the given word can be found in the grid by selecting a sequ...
**My approach:** ```python import math class ConvexFunction: def __init__(self, func): self.func = func def evaluate(self, x: float) -> float: return self.func(x) class Solution: def __init__(self, func: ConvexFunction): self.func = func def minimize(self, a:...
## Currency Exchange – Maximum Conversion Rate ### Problem Overview You are given a collection of currency pairs along with their exchange rates (for example, `GBP → USD = 109.0`). Using this information, determine the **best possible exchange rate** from a so...
The coding question I got was: ```python def find_and_wrap_substrings(s, elements): words = s.split() result = [] for word in words: found = False for element in elements: index = word.find(element) if index != -1: result.append(word[:index] + "[" + element +...
I completed the online assessment (OA) on HackerRank, which required using a webcam. The phone screen involved two questions and a discussion on tradeoffs. **OA Question 1:** Jump Game Prime - A Hard dynamic programming problem. It was a variation of a frequen...
