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- link specialized algo in interview one of answers in https://leetcode.com/problems/shortest-palindrome/description/ is using KMP. are interviewees supposed to know this kind of algo? i am pretty confident with general CS algos/data structure but i find it difficult to believe many people would know KMP.
- Hudson River Trading Algo Web eng Just finished the assessment for their Algo WEB engineer role. the test was in C/C++ or java.... It didn’t go to well (60%) #engineering - did the recruiter send me the wrong assessment or is this normal for web engineers to take this as well. Hopefully someone had a similar experience. #softwar
- Best Algo/Data Structure refresher? Haven’t really touched trees/linked list/ect in 3-4 years and I’m looking to interview in 4-6 months. What are some good refreshers, videos, courses, ect? Besides leetcode. Already doing that TC: 115k YOE: 3
- Why is CS algos so outdated? They’re not teaching the best stuff anymore in algos. They leave out important LC algo topics like Sliding window, two pointer, fast and slow etc, even heaps barely covered The professors are stuck in the 70s focusing on DP and Divide and conquer but these are only a few of the algorithms needed t
- HRT New grad Algo Developer What should I expect in an interview for the role above? TC: 160k YOE: new grad
- HRT Algo Intern Codility Test I got the Codility test, but I have no idea what it includes. I’m assuming Leetcode? I suck at Leetcode and would need at least a month to prepare, so should I just not do the test to avoid 100% certain failure and a possibility of getting blacklisted? I got the test from a generic email address,
- DS & algo Interview I’ve been learning DS & algo - I’m pretty comfortable with arrays, trees (bst, min/max heap), hash, linkedlist, stacks/queues... I’m struggling with graph, hence my questions: 1. how often does graphs questions come up during swe interviews? 2. what are the types of graph questions? thank you 🙂
- HRT Algo Software Engineer (c++/python) interview May anyone please help with what they ask? what i should prepare? I really want to land this role and get back into the finance space. Ive always dreamed of entering algo trading. I have a phone interview lined up but the study guide has everything from probability to os to data structures. Any inf
- Data Engineering Interview at FAANG : Is Algo Must ? I am a senior Data Engineer. Recently got rejected at Apple’s onsite as could not solve two leetcode problems. Other interviewers were impressed by my Big Data skills( at least from their body language) as that’s my day-to-day job. So for FAANG Data Engineering is Leetcode a must no matter how good
- Specific Language Requirement for Algo Rounds? Is it common for companies to require you to solve algo rounds in the language you will be mainly working with in the role (e.g, Kotlin/Java for Android engineers, Swift/ObjC for iOS engineers, etc.) ? Also specifically curious about Robinhood.
- HRT phone screening - Algo SWE Can any of my chinese friends with access to 1point3acres please share some types of interview questions they like to ask in first phone screen? really nervous for this one because my math is really rusty.
- Hudson River Trading - Algo Software Engineer (C++/Python) Interview Anybody has their interview scheduled for "Algo Software Engineer (C++/Python)" or has gotten interviewed before for this role? Wanted to learn more about their interview process.
- Algo and coding courses for interview I am preparing for SDM roles in Meta, Google, Apple, Coinbase and other such companies. I code on the daily basis but understand that it's very different from LC style questions. I am checking these courses but not sure if these are worth while - outco interviewkickstart Any recommendations?
- Interviewers - during algo / coding What you do when candidate says she has already seen the q and know the algo for it? Do you change the q? What if she has seen that q too before ?
- Time to prep for Algos How much time do you generally need to prep for algos? Specially for fb- google interview. Haven’t studied algos from past 5 years!
- Is practicing algo interesting? It is more interesting to work for my company project than solving algo problems, which are meaningless, but even if I commit so hard to my current role, increasing rate is still less than I jump to another company. I can learn much more by doing projects than solving those endless algorithms, and c
- Process of writing leetcode algo I'm trying to level up my skills from easy to medium problems and I find that using the same input/example and walking through it on white-board/paper while writing the code in parallel helps me the most to get a written version. Does that sound like a good strategy? The issue is if the chosen input
- Research/Algo to management Guys, I am seeking some career advice here. I am currently working in the ADAS/Autonomous space as an Algo Developer in the Autonomy space and I have an offer for a research role in AV at one of the big 3 in Michigan and the role is of my interest. However, at a later stage, say 2-4 years down the r
- How to fix: can’t remember leetcode algos I’ve been doing a lot of leetcode but found that after I solve a problem, if I come back to it a week or two later, I would’ve forgotten the algo and we need to re-look at the solution to successfully solve it. It’s frustrating because I was hoping that I would remember the algo and improve. Has any
- London algo trading: what salary to ask for 2 companies (tier-wise, think DRW), in very late stages for a quant/algo trader. 1.5 yoe at Amazon but very little algo trading experience (just 1 internship). How much do I ask for, how to negotiate, and in the likely scenario I get both offers, how to leverage them? Important sidenote: both roles
- Only algo/DS problems for interviews? I joined Microsoft India from college around a year ago. My major field of study was not computer science and cracked Microsoft solely using the interview preparation I did for Algorithm/Data Structures and that is the only thing I was decent at in Computer Science. I know very little about Operatin
- Interview Prep - string matching algo hey all the interviewers and interviewees, when there are questions on the lines of string matching there are many algos like naive solution, KMP, rabin karp. what are the expectations, do you write the kmp based method or just explain this optimization. TC : 180k yoe : 2
- must have CS books - algo & data structures for a noob, what are the best and easily understandable books on algorithms and data structures ? what would you folks recommend?
- Referral for Trading Algo Developer positions I currently work as a Software Engineer at Google but want to move to finance industry. Can anyone refer me to HRT for algo developer positions or similar company/positions :).
- Facebook E5 SWE non-algo phone screening I recently had a phone screening from Facebook. I had practised over 200 LC questions all Facebook tagged and felt that I was quite well prepared for Facebook. I got a variation of add numbers which I can do in my sleep, but with the added constrains of doing file operations and dealing with bytes
- Square Tech Screen: Algo or Practical? I'm booked for a Square tech screen. I'm hearing that some folks are getting LC med/hard type questions (write a sliding window alg, traverse something with DFS, find some subsequence) and others are getting more "practical" questions (parse some stringified data, use regex, use your language's util
- Anybody offer leetcode/DS&Algo tutoring? I’m looking for some 1:1 tutoring on DS&Algo Fundamentals. Willing To Pay For Your Time. Please comment Or DM if Interested! Thanks! #leetcode
- Frustrated with DS & Algo YOE: 4 TC: meh! I'm trying to solve Leetcode questions for over 4 months now. I can't come up with an optimal solution even for easy problems. It's not only frustrating but often depressing. I feel like I don't have it in me and I'm wasting a lot of time. I feel like giving up and continue with my