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The three problems were fairly easy, but the engineer had the impression that my solutions would not work (even though they passed all the test cases). The interviewing engineer kept asking me about edge cases (which I pointed out) and made me change the tests accordingly to show that my solutions would fail. Even though, I showed the ability to add to my solution the cases that were added, the engineer did not seem impressed.
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Software Engineering

Interviewed at Stripe

3.7
Jan 22, 2019

The three problems were fairly easy, but the engineer had the impression that my solutions would not work (even though they passed all the test cases). The interviewing engineer kept asking me about edge cases (which I pointed out) and made me change the tests accordingly to show that my solutions would fail. Even though, I showed the ability to add to my solution the cases that were added, the engineer did not seem impressed.

Round 1: Given a menu (list of items prices), find all possible combinations of items that sum a particular value K. (A variation of the typical 2sum/Nsum questions). Round 2: Given a flight itinerary consisting of starting city, destination city, and ticket price (2d list) - find the optimal price flight path to get from start to destination. (A variation of Dynamic Programming Shortest Path) Given a list of sorted words from an alien dictionary, find the order of the alphabet. (Alien Dictionary Topological Sort - https://discuss.leetcode.com/topic/22476/16-18-lines-python-30-lines-c)
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Software Engineering Intern

Interviewed at Airbnb

4
Jan 9, 2017

Round 1: Given a menu (list of items prices), find all possible combinations of items that sum a particular value K. (A variation of the typical 2sum/Nsum questions). Round 2: Given a flight itinerary consisting of starting city, destination city, and ticket price (2d list) - find the optimal price flight path to get from start to destination. (A variation of Dynamic Programming Shortest Path) Given a list of sorted words from an alien dictionary, find the order of the alphabet. (Alien Dictionary Topological Sort - https://discuss.leetcode.com/topic/22476/16-18-lines-python-30-lines-c)

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