Did a virtual onsite for the new grad position (2 back to back interviews). Aced the first interview, the second one, solved everything (had to write a class with methods that had varying time complexities but one of my methods was less than optimal, O(n) vs O(log n)). It worked and passed test cases but wasn’t the fastest solution, ran out of time. Still a chance I move forward or got to be perfect for all?
Need to be perfect in technical as you are competing with people who know the questions in advance.
Interviewing these days summed up
Lmao no way. My solutions are usually less than perfect and I've consistently gotten competitive positions. Moving to Two Sigma despite not answering with perfect solutions for some of the questions -- and that's with questions they reuse that have probably been shared.
You can definitely still pass. I obviously don't know your exact question, but most likely the difference between solving optimally and solving non optimally, unless the nonoptimal is super trivial and the whole point is to get it optimal, is probably yes vs strong yes. On the other hand, we have IMO an extremely inconsistent hiring process, so really any interview here is a bit of a gamble.
What the fuck is wrong with Chinese people? We don’t have 60% Chinese people, lol. But how many companies have 60%+ white people? I’m glad we didn’t give you an offer.
I think he meant culturally Chinese. He’s just an ass who needs sparkling conversation to solve questions
Would you mind sharing the questions?