I interviewed for a Staff SWE position. Here's a breakdown of my interview experience: **Round 1: Coding + System Design** The scenario was designing a Rental Car API. * Input: (longitude, latitude) * Determine if the location is in a premium area (returns tru...
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The onsite interview consisted of two system design rounds and one coding round. I don't remember the exact coding question, but it involved a depth-first search (DFS). The two system design questions were: 1. Design a recommender system for Perplexity's disco...
The problem was to design an image feed that calls a backend API, loads images, supports infinite scrolling, displays loading indicators and error images, and supports offline viewing. The interviewer asked many frontend-specific details, including concepts I...
I interviewed for a Data Platform role. The phone screen question was a standard Rate Limiter problem. During the onsite interview: - **Coding:** I was asked a Function Call question. The interviewer emphasized the importance of speed; slow completion would le...
I was asked common coding questions from frequently asked interview questions. - LeetCode 994 - LeetCode 1642
The phone screen was rushed, and the recruiter didn't ask much. The technical interview was 75 minutes long. For the first 45 minutes, I worked on a coding problem. The last 30 minutes were for AI-related questions. The coding question was LRU cache, with foll...
The interviewer emphasized the importance of AI-related questions beforehand, even though my resume lacked AI experience. The interview involved implementing two classes, `Customer` and `Schedule`, to manage customer service order. `Customer` has two tiers: VI...
After introductions and a review of my resume, I was given a simple algorithm question as a warm-up. Then, the interviewer introduced the ML team's models, their inputs and outputs, and I was tasked with designing a system to connect these models. This involve...
The coding question was LeetCode 146, LRU Cache. I drew a diagram on the whiteboard, wrote the code on the whiteboard, and did a dry run.
The initial coding question involved finding the difference between two lists: identifying elements present in list1 but not in list2. My approach was to convert both lists into sets, standardizing the elements (e.g., converting to lowercase) during the set cr...
