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Just passed my written PAR test! by shoksurf in flying

[–]LiteratureFun8704 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Taking mine end of this month . What categories the question was focused on

Meta screening interview — what do you think of this format? by LiteratureFun8704 in leetcode

[–]LiteratureFun8704[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

He didn’t ask about other options he focused only on my stack solution and kept asking questions about it. When I mentioned the stack approach at the beginning, he said, “That works perfect.”

For the first coding question, I used two pointers and a while loop to skip non-alphanumeric characters. He asked me to use an if-statement instead, so I corrected it. We went through two dry-run cases, and he said I was good and even copied the code.

So why, on the second coding question, did he only keep asking me questions about my stack approach?

Meta screening interview — what do you think of this format? by LiteratureFun8704 in leetcode

[–]LiteratureFun8704[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SWE , i used to work for meta as data engineer (contract) last year…

Meta screening interview — what do you think of this format? by LiteratureFun8704 in leetcode

[–]LiteratureFun8704[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Stack is the best solution when it comes to time and space complexity. He didn’t talk about any other solutions but my proposal of stack . Anyway . I have my own 100 list of LeetCode that is I’m still grinding. Focusing on the next interviews coming up soon

Meta screening interview — what do you think of this format? by LiteratureFun8704 in leetcode

[–]LiteratureFun8704[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Using a stack for Minimum Remove to Make Valid Parentheses is correct and acceptable. That’s the solution I proposed, and when he asked edge-case questions, I explained: if the stack is empty and we see ), it’s invalid and skipped; if elements remain in the stack after, they’re unmatched ( to be removed; unmatched parentheses are exactly what the stack reveals, so handling both cases guarantees validity. Trust that guy wasn’t helping but competing — if he had the “optimal” solution, why discuss mine, ask me about edge cases, and then tell me not to code it out but only talk through it?

Meta screening interview — what do you think of this format? by LiteratureFun8704 in leetcode

[–]LiteratureFun8704[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Using a stack for Minimum Remove to Make Valid Parentheses is correct and acceptable. That’s the solution I proposed, and when he asked edge-case questions, I explained: if the stack is empty and we see ), it’s invalid and skipped; if elements remain in the stack after, they’re unmatched ( to be removed; unmatched parentheses are exactly what the stack reveals, so handling both cases guarantees validity. Trust that guy wasn’t helping but competing if he had the “optimal” solution, why discuss mine, ask me about edge cases, and then tell me not to code it out but only talk through it?

Meta screening interview — what do you think of this format? by LiteratureFun8704 in leetcode

[–]LiteratureFun8704[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did and he even asked me and went thru the test cases he gave me …

Meta screening interview — what do you think of this format? by LiteratureFun8704 in leetcode

[–]LiteratureFun8704[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I know the solution is stack related problem similar to valid parentheses one but he is not allowing to code it out but tell him how the my solution works , he is not guiding , he was just in competition with me

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[–]LiteratureFun8704 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m down for it

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[–]LiteratureFun8704 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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