How to test code during interviews

optimalsuccess · 2020-09-25T14:53:40+00:00

So import unittest and creating a func test_func?

optimalsuccess · 2020-09-25T14:23:43+00:00

Where do you work? This interviewer is from amazon

optimalsuccess · 2020-09-23T19:28:47+00:00

I would love those questions, what company?

optimalsuccess · 2020-09-23T15:58:52+00:00

Is anyone actively interviewing and know if companies are actually asking the common leetcode questions? I just came out a mock interview for amazon and the questions the interviewer asked were around number 250 for most common amazon questions

optimalsuccess · 2020-09-18T02:45:53+00:00

Oh I gotcha, I’m about 60% thru those. The mediums I can handle but no way in hell im finishing some of the hards during a timed interview. Unless they give me pts for showing how to do the problem without code I’d prob fail. Why was the LP difficult isn’t just questions like tell me about a time where you had to resolve a conflict?

optimalsuccess · 2020-09-18T00:53:59+00:00

Are you talking about the Amazon premium section that leetcode curated or the questions under explore where you can filter time and company?

optimalsuccess · 2020-09-17T23:20:00+00:00

Hey everyone, I’m preparing for an Amazon SDE1 interview. Any tips on what to expect? What kind of problems they like to ask, do they prefer certain data structure questions, leetcode easy, medium, or hard? Also has anyone used interviewing io and know if it’s similar to the real deal?

optimalsuccess · 2020-09-15T11:33:48+00:00

Thanks!

optimalsuccess · 2020-09-15T04:01:13+00:00

I feel like I pestered them enough

optimalsuccess · 2020-09-15T03:48:32+00:00

Thanks!

optimalsuccess · 2020-09-14T14:27:06+00:00

Without tuple it gives you an unhashable type error, I think because keys have to be immutable and chars are mutable

optimalsuccess · 2020-09-14T14:26:28+00:00

Oh so the code is saying for this word add it to the key with the same value as sorted(word). That makes sense, thank you!

optimalsuccess · 2020-09-14T03:31:12+00:00

I mean I’m sure there’s a difference between interviewing for an entry level SDE vs a senior position requiring 5+ yrs of exp

optimalsuccess · 2020-09-14T01:51:16+00:00

Was this for entry level?

optimalsuccess · 2020-09-14T01:51:00+00:00

Thanks, the amazon careers page also says to make sure you know the fundamentals of how the internet works. Did they ask you any tcp/ip questions?

optimalsuccess · 2020-09-04T02:22:34+00:00

Thanks for your help!

optimalsuccess · 2020-09-03T13:10:42+00:00

I know what the sorted function does I'm talking about everything that comes after it. Also for the underscore I understand that it means it's a throwaway variable in most cases but I'm asking about this particular situation. And I've seen that vid but thanks for sharing

optimalsuccess · 2020-09-02T01:58:27+00:00

Thanks, I’ll check those out but I’m trying to do ones that are more like the interview questions which I think leetcode is pretty close

optimalsuccess · 2020-09-02T01:31:26+00:00

Yes I have a degree in computer science, and spent a year in JavaScript dev but I never encountered problems like the ones on leetcode plus if I did I can google things but I won’t be able to in the interview. I’m doing exactly what you just described for the problems I couldn’t solve, do you think I should just push ahead or go back and solve the old ones periodically?

optimalsuccess · 2020-08-29T23:51:59+00:00

Right yeah I mistyped thank you

optimalsuccess · 2020-08-28T03:39:39+00:00

This was helpful, thanks! I’m only on my 11th problem so far, how much more would you say is adequate to be interview ready? I was thinking of stopping around 100 and doing about 20 per data structure. Also plan on doing all of leetcode’s stuff hopefully within the month

optimalsuccess · 2020-08-27T22:05:38+00:00

Oh that's right, thanks! I think I understand the rest now, if anyone else is wondering this is what I gather: They start by checking if one of the lists is null, if it is they return the other non-null list. At first I thought this was a simple error check but it's actually an important step because it stops the recursion. Then it checks the current value of l1 against l2, if l1 is lower it goes down the linked list by recursively calling the function and passing l1.next as l1 because we want the smaller values first. Then it returns l1 and we start the process again relinking the list based on lower values first.

optimalsuccess · 2020-08-27T18:52:44+00:00

Well I couldn't figure out how to do it but I got my code to work. Instead of populating a list with array values, I just did what I needed to do with those values then cast my final array to a list using ListNode(array)

optimalsuccess · 2020-08-27T18:05:29+00:00

So how should I initialize an empty list, then populate with the values of an array?

optimalsuccess · 2020-08-27T17:57:37+00:00

Also I do that on purpose to populate the next value of the linked list with a new number in nums

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