Software Engineer · Staff-Level (9 YOE)
Location: Seattle, WA, USReport date: May 2, 2026Equity includedBonus included
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The interviewer asked whether I had worked with access control or policy systems before. The question was Normalize Symbolic Access Rules: https://www.chillinterview.com/learn/coding-interview-questions/normalize-symbolic-access-rules. I was given rule strings...
I was asked to find the shortest time/cost from a source to a destination in a 2D grid using BFS. The optimization involved scanning once instead of four times. The question I got was: ``` from collections import deque class Solution: def bfs(self, grid, start...
During the phone screen, I was asked to implement a timed cache. The interviewer seemed to have modified a prompt by changing some keywords, which I didn't notice clearly. Each item has a fixed cache time. I initially wrote the simplest version and then a vers...
### Onsite Rounds - **System Design:** I was asked to design a system for anomaly detection. - **Behavioral Questions:** - What would you do if users didn't like your product? - How would you handle negative feedback from a manager? - How would you give negati...
I had four rounds for my onsite interview. **Round 1: Coding** * I was asked to implement an LRU cache. **Round 2: System Design** * I was asked about model weights distribution. **Round 3: Hiring Manager Chat** * I was asked about my past projects and the mos...
I had a phone screen and an onsite interview. **Phone Screen:** The phone screen consisted of one LeetCode question and a project discussion. The LeetCode question involved finding a coordinate that minimizes the sum of distances to all other coordinates in a...
I had an onsite interview that covered coding, AI, system design, and behavioral aspects. In the coding round, I solved LeetCode 26 and LeetCode 329 and answered follow-up questions. For the AI-native random friend recommender question, I completed four questi...