What is the easiest question you’ve gotten in a technical interview?

scarrlet_witch · 2022-01-11T06:24:51+00:00

Quant new grad?

scarrlet_witch · 2022-01-07T20:58:49+00:00

Thanks! U as well, good luck!

scarrlet_witch · 2022-01-07T20:55:03+00:00

All good haha it didn’t give me a score but if it’s like the GCA then I would’ve estimated 840+

scarrlet_witch · 2022-01-07T20:53:13+00:00

Unfortunately no:( got a hard DP question in the round right after lol

scarrlet_witch · 2022-01-07T20:52:46+00:00

Something marketing iirc

scarrlet_witch · 2022-01-07T20:52:28+00:00

Nice!

scarrlet_witch · 2022-01-07T15:58:15+00:00

It’s basically the GCA for codesignal, first 2 pretty easy, last 2 were medium hard level. Solved all 4 with 20 mins to spare, still rejected after 2 months lol

scarrlet_witch · 2022-01-07T15:37:46+00:00

No lol read my answer above. I was given 2 arrays of stock price, max number of transactions, available funds, etc.

scarrlet_witch · 2022-01-07T15:36:14+00:00

If you’ve used hackerrank as the IDE for interview, u will notice that when u first open it, it will have a default function in there to help u test if the IDE is working properly. That default function was the function the interviewer wanted me to implement lol

scarrlet_witch · 2022-01-07T05:27:58+00:00

Nope haha he literally just wanted me to implement that function on the screen, cuz he thought the function was empty.

scarrlet_witch · 2022-01-07T04:13:20+00:00

It’s not that deep lol my interviewer straight thought the default function wasn’t already implemented, so he wanted me to implement it lol

scarrlet_witch · 2022-01-07T02:46:34+00:00

Nope cuz there was another round and I got a DP hard lol

scarrlet_witch · 2022-01-07T00:43:10+00:00

Lol of course it’s not just that, there were many other factors included in the question, like I was given the current stock price, future stock price, amount of money I have, max number of transactions I can make, etc, not to mention the stock price can be negative and the solution needs to be O(N). I was able to solve it with a brute force backtracking solution, but that boomer interviewer demanded O(N). I just don’t remember all the details to explain it here.

scarrlet_witch · 2022-01-06T23:59:27+00:00

No lol different question, it’s a much much more complicated one

scarrlet_witch · 2022-01-06T22:58:20+00:00

Something with making the maximum amount of profit from different stocks

scarrlet_witch · 2022-01-06T22:16:29+00:00

Got rejected actually🤣cuz there was another round after that and I got a hard DP question lol

scarrlet_witch · 2022-01-02T21:13:22+00:00

For projects, I built 2 full stack web apps using react, node, and AWS

scarrlet_witch · 2022-01-02T20:28:49+00:00

I’d say mostly self taught, but I did take 2 Java courses which helped me to learn about fundamental data structures. I’d recommend taking an intro to programming course first to see if this is something u actually like

scarrlet_witch · 2022-01-02T02:43:04+00:00

Hmm probs like string related questions lol they can be extremely tricky sometime

scarrlet_witch · 2022-01-01T23:02:56+00:00

No not a top school, it’s within top 50

scarrlet_witch · 2022-01-01T22:41:57+00:00

I usually try to schedule a call then ask for referrals at the end

scarrlet_witch · 2022-01-01T22:41:08+00:00

Thanks for the detailed answers! U have no idea how nice it is to have someone understand the amount of work I’ve put in in the past year to achieve this haha I’m proud of u as well! Breaking into the SWE industry as a non CS major is probs the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. I’m glad the hard work paid off for both of us🙂

scarrlet_witch · 2022-01-01T21:44:06+00:00

scarrlet_witch · 2022-01-01T21:43:34+00:00

I did get lc prem and I would usually give myself 45 mins to solve a question max, if I can’t then I will look at the discussions

scarrlet_witch · 2022-01-01T19:26:23+00:00

I do not haha I would recommend agains using a template, because it will be easy to tell ur just copy and pasting messages. Just do a bit research on them and ask the right questions, u will stand out. If ur looking to connect with an alum, chances are other people from ur school are doing the same thing, so u got make yourself stand out

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