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Using a list of keywords, find every index of the sequence in another list of words. Ordering doesn't matter, the keywords just all need to be there. They supposedly don't care about optimizations as long as you have at least a brute-force answer.
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Senior Backend Software Engineer

Interviewed at Regard Technologies

4.6
Dec 1, 2024

Using a list of keywords, find every index of the sequence in another list of words. Ordering doesn't matter, the keywords just all need to be there. They supposedly don't care about optimizations as long as you have at least a brute-force answer.

- Live developing (extension) of the provided technical challenge. - Questions about the approach taken in order to solve the challenge. - Several questions about profesional experiences. - Questions about ways of working. - General questions.
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Senior Backend Developer

Interviewed at SeQura

4
Dec 13, 2022

- Live developing (extension) of the provided technical challenge. - Questions about the approach taken in order to solve the challenge. - Several questions about profesional experiences. - Questions about ways of working. - General questions.

The two technical assignments I worked on were quite reasonable. There are a set of assignments that deal with working w/ a fictitious server in a docker environment. I felt they could do more setting up the docker environment to mimic the problem more accurately. No one in 2021 works with an unfamiliar API that they cannot accurately test against.
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Senior Backend Engineer

Interviewed at Ad Hoc (DC)

3.1
Mar 16, 2021

The two technical assignments I worked on were quite reasonable. There are a set of assignments that deal with working w/ a fictitious server in a docker environment. I felt they could do more setting up the docker environment to mimic the problem more accurately. No one in 2021 works with an unfamiliar API that they cannot accurately test against.

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