I was asked to implement LFU cache in a phone interview. đ€Ł Regurgitted the O(1) design in minutes but couldnât finish coding all the edge cases and got rejected. Could have probably finished if I didnât have to keep up with the phone screen narrative. Are they hoping a professional peogrammer eventually applies to their obscure hedge fund? 300 LC
Not surprised đeven if it was the initial warm up question for the real question to follow up. Phone screen are crazy these days
Can second that, I had interviewed for wayfair and they asked system design, sql and lc hard (25 mins) for phone screen. I did a redo and this time they asked a hard graph problem with follow ups on top of system design questions. I guess these days outside of FAANGMULA they probably do not want to fly you over unless you can regurgitate the optimal solution in 30 minutes.
@Cerner which position and level?
I think thatâs bbg fav qts to asked over phone
yeah maybe they've expected OP to know the answer đ
You just got a bad interviewer. Thereâs loads of inexperienced interviewers out there. Manager says they want top talent and noobie interviewer translates this as âask harder questionsâ. LC is a curse. Just think about how much harder itâll be a few years from now.
Youâre spot on Netflix!
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Agreed. LC is a curse
Counter point: you answering a memorized solution could be the reason you got rejected. They're more interested in hearing how u think about it than they are in seeing that you know the solution. Solving is a big plus, but only if you actually solved it.
I think this only matters for good interviewers or most google interviewers . Most interviewers I've had didn't give a shit when I was talking
LRU and LFU were the first LC problems Iâve ever done so it took me a bit to recall from six months ago. The problem was not passing the tests. When another hedge fund asked me to find the median of two sorted arrays (another LC hard) over the phone, they didnât mind that I went straight to the most optimal solution. I think itâs a newbie mistake to think that interviewers expect you to stumble for a while before figuring out how to solve something.
I would say the problem comes when a junior interviewer interviews a someone for a level above them! They want to play it out how is this person so special compared to me and I canât let in this guy in my team to mentor me. Lot of times I see EMs depend on these junior folks to interview very senior guy and itâs not fair. If I apply for L5 I should be interviewed by a senior L5 or L6 and then it makes sense. LFU is very hard for phone screen and even for onsites.
Also the third party companies used for scheduling phone screens have made these phone screens harder than usual.
Ditto. I got matched to a junior member on a phone interview at splunk and I could see it in their tone that this interview isnât going to work . Companies need to have interview training before they ask folks to take interviews
Which company
no longer liking bloomberg?
No, not happy here. Manager is a prick. Canât keep carrying him basically for free while get gets all the credit.
But u already have FU Money