Have you ever been asked an LC hard in an interview?
And I don’t mean fake hards like “merge k sorted lists”.
Have been asked many. Got LFU cache, median in a data stream, number of squareful arrays, skyline during my onsites.
Holy shit...skyline in any interview is insane. How do you solve that if you have never seen it. Just ridiculous.
Lmao I was walked out of after the interview because I couldn't solve Skyline. Check out my post! "Skyline problem (Tech Careers)" https://us.teamblind.com/s/62S0b51f
Got basic calculator (all 4 ops and parens) in phone round. :P
A guy asked me Skyline problem for internal transfer at Microsoft and I hadn't even seen the problem before. And the funny part is, it was the second question of the interview with 15 minutes left. Lmao
Why is skyline hard?
It's hard to write bug free code for this question
Ahh. I can see that I guess. I fucked up a pointer on LRU once in a phone screen, but the interviewer also couldn't find where.
Got lc hard(real hard) for phone interview at wayfair. I guess they just don’t want to fly someone from mid west to Boston.
Hard is not very uncommon anymore. I have faced couple of them.
Got STFU in telephonic
I got an NP-complete problem which was not obvious it can't be solved in polynomial time although the interviewer was asking for that.
Is LRU LFU fake hard too?
Yea thats such a commonly known problem that its easy to prep for. I’m mostly concerned about random mindfuck problems
They are medium now...