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Bytedance | SWE/SRE | Coding | Onsite
SWE/SRE
https://leetcode.com/problems/detonate the maximum bombs/description/ 2101. Detonate the Maximum Bombs You are given a list of bombs. The range of a bomb is defined as the area where its effect can be felt. This area is...
Sig | Quantitative Developer Intern | Coding | Onsite
Quantitative Developer Intern
You are given a python notebook with different data, including transactions for different stocks and held positions. You will need to use Time series pandas functions where you aggregate data sets to find trends across t...
Akuna Capital | Software Engineer Intern, C++ | Coding | Code Pair + Technical Video Screen
Software Engineer Intern, C++
Review and add to the 2nd OA: Object Pool. Anyone who gets to this round will have completed the 2 OAs (first is LC style, 2nd is a C++ debugging round), so they should know what this is referring to. The OA involved deb...
Oracle | PMTS | Coding | Phone Screen
PMTS
OCI team (Oracle managed Kubernetes "OMK" team) First a simple debug question was asked. Then this coding question was asked: https://medium.com/@vikasgoel53/exploring bfs breadth first search in a graph service a social...
Photon | Android Developer | Coding | Online Assessment
Android Developer
Given an integer array nums that may contain duplicates, return all possible subsets (the power set). The solution set must not contain duplicate subsets. Return the solution in any order.
Oracle | Princial Software Engineer | System Design | Onsite
Princial Software Engineer
Powerday consists of rounds Round 1: Coding Its related to graphs Round 2: System Design Design a parking lot system Round 3: Behavioral/Bar riser Easy STAR based questions Round 4: Coding Its related to backtracking: Gi...
Flourish | SDE 2 | Behavioral Screen | Onsite
SDE 2
What are some regrets you had at your time at your last job? Tell me about a difficult decision you had to make Tell me about a time you had a disagreement with your team Tons of followups for each of the above
Microsoft | Software Engineer II | Coding | Phone Screen
Software Engineer II
Leetcode 387: First Unique Character in a String
Citadel | Software Engineer | Coding | Online Assessment
Software Engineer
Problem 2: Determine the number of ways to allocate n processes in n intervals without the same process being in consecutive intervals. Return this answer to the mod of 10^9 + 7 . Example 1: if n processes=1 and n interv...
Citadel | Software Engineer | Coding | Online Assessment
Software Engineer
Problem 1: A neural network has n layers where the number of neurons in layer i is layer[i] . In an odd generation, you can add at most 1 neuron to a layer. In an even generation, you can add at most 2 neurons to a layer...
Cohesity | Senior Software Engineer | Coding | Phone Screen
Senior Software Engineer
"In our file system, some legacy logs are compressed to save space. A compressed string follows the format kistringl, where the string inside the brackets is repeated exactly k times. You need to write a function that ta...
Microsoft | Applied Science Intern | Coding | Phone Screen
Applied Science Intern
The first half of the interview should be basic technical questions about your resume. Next you will be asked questions about AI,ML algos, NLP, and LLMs. These questions were more explaining basic definitions and concept...
The Farmer's Dog | Senior Software Engineer (Backend) | System Design | Onsite
Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
Design an IoT Thermometer application. Functional requirements included viewing current temperature in real time in app, viewing historical data, and notifications. Focus on data ingestion (kafka) and the real time aspec...
Upstart | Software Engineer | Coding | Online Assessment
Software Engineer
Find Largest Numbers Upstart Function Implement the method findLargest(numbers) so it returns the largest number from the list numbers. Notes numbers contains only integers. numbers always contains at least one element,...
Adobe | software development engineer | Coding | Onsite
software development engineer
Search a node in binary stree Optimization can you search the node in a recursive and iterative way. explain the complexity as well
Adobe | Software Development engineer | System Design | Onsite
Software Development engineer
System Design Interview Design Google docs how are you going to scale when there are million of users When there are network partition how will you save the changes locally How will you share the files with others
Docusign | Software Engineer | Coding | Phone Screen
Software Engineer
JSON Schema Validator Given a JSON schema and a JSON object, write a function to validate whether the object matches the schema. Sample schema: { "type": "object", "properties": { "name": { "type": "string" }, "age": { "...
Microsoft | Software Engineer | Coding | Onsite
Software Engineer
Elevator scheduling An elevator system manages multiple elevators serving different floors in a building. When someone requests an elevator, the system decides which one to dispatch. Once inside, passengers select their...
Microsoft | Software Engineer | Coding | Onsite
Software Engineer
Question1:https://leetcode.com/problems/intersection of two linked lists/description/ Follow up: https://leetcode.com/problems/linked list cycle/description/
Microsoft | Software Engineer | System Design | Onsite
Software Engineer
Design a system similar to TinyURL. Given an input string (a long URL), generate a shortened output string using Base64 encoding. Design the API and walk through the system’s non functional requirements, including scalab...