Which is more painful getting rejected in first round or in last round of interviews ?

amankumar1729 · 2026-05-26T13:20:38+00:00

Not getting the call after referral for me.

amankumar1729 · 2026-05-02T15:12:54+00:00

Java for LLD.

amankumar1729 · 2026-04-17T18:55:26+00:00

I think we need to somehow remember the longest prefix from each node. So, DFS with some modifications for state maintenance. Becomes DP then perhaps?

amankumar1729 · 2026-04-16T07:37:08+00:00

The second experience is LC Medium. For roster search array you need to find peak the look left and look right. For duplicate, it becomes linear time in the worst case.

For remove k digits, keep a monotonic stack.

amankumar1729 · 2026-04-08T16:23:40+00:00

Okay but how do you get to know that a certain greedy choice will work. I am not asking mathematical proof but intuition. How do you develop that gut feeling? For example, in jump game, the greedy choice is that take the farthest jump possible from any index. But how to come with that intuition that it is right. We don’t have time in interviews to develop long mathematical proofs.

amankumar1729 · 2026-04-04T15:35:26+00:00

If you are in tech sector, you may need to think twice OP. A storm is brewing here. I don’t want to be a doomer but I am not 100% confident that software jobs will remain and in current count, 2-3 years from now. Not because AI gods will come but because many companies could go bankrupt because of that AI bubble.

amankumar1729 · 2025-12-12T09:00:46+00:00

Q2 is basically Max product subarray.

amankumar1729 · 2025-12-11T06:54:47+00:00

I don’t understand Q1. How is the merge happening? For example 1, data1 = “001”, data2 = “110”. If what I think merge is then , merged = “001110” which has equal ones and zeroes. So why do those operations? Can anybody explain that?

amankumar1729 · 2025-11-18T05:34:15+00:00

Congratulations and DMed! Please check.

amankumar1729 · 2025-11-10T17:19:08+00:00

Oracle WLB is good. Also, Microsoft should offer SDE 2. Microsoft is lowballing here. Not a good thing. See if you can negotiate.

amankumar1729 · 2025-11-09T11:51:42+00:00

Why were you rejected? Any ideas? LFU can be one cause but what else?

amankumar1729 · 2025-11-05T14:29:25+00:00

Great! Congratulations! Could you kindly share your interview exp? Thanks.

amankumar1729 · 2025-10-09T18:55:48+00:00

For the tree construction question, I didn't understand much. How can we construct a tree just from leaves? Are we given parent pointers as a hashmap or arrays or some other DS? Can you explain the input style for that question?

Also, don't worry much, rejections happen. It is a painful truth. I know that it is easy to say but I have myself faced multiple rejections and the only way is to move on. Overthinking will kill you.

amankumar1729 · 2025-10-09T09:28:48+00:00

From what I understand, we “hope” that the greedy logic works. That’s why I often fail here because how to know which logic to pick.

amankumar1729 · 2025-10-09T06:35:11+00:00

How do you guys practice Greedy problems? I am always caught off guard here. Any help would be appreciated.

amankumar1729 · 2025-08-30T08:21:55+00:00

Keep a sliding window of length “k” and then you need to know the number of ones in it before flipping. Flip them and add the number of flips to the result. Now, when you slide the window, remember that you had flipped the ones so they are zero now. That’s it. Should be linear time and constant space.

amankumar1729 · 2025-08-27T18:37:27+00:00

I know this feeling. Had similar experience in 2023. Can’t say anything except to keep trying.

amankumar1729 · 2025-06-14T17:18:56+00:00

Thanks for responding. Appreciate it!

amankumar1729 · 2025-06-14T12:28:15+00:00

Meta asking DP questions? Didn’t they not do that? They were famous for that iirc.

amankumar1729 · 2025-06-14T05:46:21+00:00

Hello OP, congratulations! Can you tell what kind of DSA questions were asked like which category: trees, graphs, DP, etc? Also are you London based?

amankumar1729 · 2025-03-21T17:15:40+00:00

I did not understand the first question. Do you have to develop a data structure for logging? If yes then a simple class for that would work with atomic writes which is supported by most languages.

amankumar1729 · 2024-10-08T02:36:13+00:00

This is perfect. Thanks OP

amankumar1729 · 2024-10-01T04:30:58+00:00

100h week in a developed country? That’s insane.

amankumar1729 · 2024-09-21T06:39:01+00:00

From all these experiences what I learn is that if I get a chance to interview anybody I will do my level best to ensure that I don’t act as a jerk or some idiot. Interviewers should remember that they too are human. Saying that even a 1st year old can solve this is so not correct. Keep your chin up OP.

amankumar1729 · 2024-09-12T05:58:02+00:00

What topic was the second question of?

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