I was given a GET query URL and needed to parse each query string's key and value pair, returning the result as a Map. I needed to consider that keys might not be unique and values could be Integer, String, Boolean, or List types. Example: parseQueryString("?k...
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I had an onsite interview experience with Airbnb that did not go as planned. **Round 1: System Design + Coding** For the system design round, I met with a tech lead with 20 years of experience who also has a YouTube channel. The question was to design a job sc...
After the recruiter call, I scheduled the first technical screening. I was notified a week later that I passed. The question was a math problem related to UI View Layout. The follow-up question was: If this view is in a relative view, how would you modify your...
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...
I was referred internally and felt lucky that the questions I got were standard interview questions. **Phone Screen:** I solved LeetCode 362 in 25 minutes. I spent another 10 minutes discussing tradeoffs, such as when to clear the queue, how to handle backgrou...
I was asked to write code to evaluate simple addition and subtraction expressions given as strings. The interviewer provided a few examples: "add(1,2)" -> 3 "sub(3,1)" -> 2 "add(1, sub(3,1))" -> 3 I chose to use backtracking. The first three characters determi...
#### Phone Screen The phone screen was an OOD / data structure design question. The problem was roughly: given a stream of visitor records, where each record contains a visitor name and a timestamp, design a system that can answer queries for a given timestamp...
During the phone screen, I spent half the time on a coding question and the other half on a system design question. The coding question was LeetCode 369 (Plus One Linked List). The system design question was: Assume there are 1 million devices, each sending a...
I spoke with a recruiter and immediately received an invitation for a technical phone screen without even submitting a resume, which makes me think they're hiring aggressively. The interviewer spoke very slowly. We started with system design, and by the time t...
My interview process consisted of three rounds. First, I had an HR screening where I was asked standard questions about why I wanted to work at the company and my job search timeline. A week later, I had a phone screen which focused on React coding. I had to i...
