Coinbase VO
Completed VO a couple of days ago. 1st PP: Find best exchange rate. I finished it but there was an edge case about arbitrage I wasn’t aware of. There were also 2 simple follow ups. All in all finished with about 10 mins to spare. 2nd PP: Column traversal question. Was then asked to implement 3 iterators, which I finished. We stopped with about 10 minutes left, and interviewer said they had a bunch of iterators in a list. SD: very generic system design interview question. I don’t think I did great but not terribly either. EM: standard EM interview (ran a little over). For those of you who’ve gone through the process, what’s the bar for IC5? I’m a little concerned I might have missed it. TC: 300k #coinbase #interview
@OP I recently went through the same and waiting for an update as well. Did you interview for IC5? Are you open to move from Google to CB considering the wlb at CB?
Yes and yes. Work appears more interesting at CB I think.
For 2 why interviewers said a bunch of iterators in list? Just explaining your solution?
Nope, I asked if there were more questions and they said they had a list with more iterators.
So you did not finish it all the way to the end?
Can you share more details about the iterator questions? What is the input output format?
They are not hard, I would say they are LC easy equivalent.
For the exchange question is Dijkstra or bellman-ford the right approach? Or brute force DFS with backtracking?
For the exchange question is Dijkstra or bellman-ford the right approach? Or brute force DFS with backtracking?
Did you use hacker rank for coding or screen share via your IDE ?
I used hacker rank.
What was the total offer and did you accept? I have VO scheduled next week
Yeah, standard IC5 offer + ~50k sign on. GL with your interview!
Can you share more about the iterator question? From leetcode discuss, someone posted a similar question, but the prompt leaves so many clarification questions... https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/1829936/coinbase-phone-screen-implement-iterators Iterators: Custom Iterator Odd, even having infinite stream (Even takes odd as dependency) Negative Iterator( takes a dependency iterator) InterLeavingIterator (takes a list of iterators) Limit Iterator (takes a limit and terminates the infinite iterator)
I think 1 and 2 look like passing. SD is probably the level setter imo. Good chances tho imo