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Coding Assessment was two questions in two hours. The questions were similar to, but not the exact same as: 1. Find min number of moves needed for knight on chess board to move to target square 2. Implement custom stack with getMin() method in O(1) time. Video Interview gave you ~8 questions to answer in about ~45s each. Sample questions include: 1. What is one weakness you have 2. Is O(1) time algorithm the fastest 3. Can signed and unsigned integers store the same number of values 4. Describe a specific data structure to a non-technical person
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Graduate Software Engineer

Interviewed at IMC Trading

4.1
Nov 8, 2020

Coding Assessment was two questions in two hours. The questions were similar to, but not the exact same as: 1. Find min number of moves needed for knight on chess board to move to target square 2. Implement custom stack with getMin() method in O(1) time. Video Interview gave you ~8 questions to answer in about ~45s each. Sample questions include: 1. What is one weakness you have 2. Is O(1) time algorithm the fastest 3. Can signed and unsigned integers store the same number of values 4. Describe a specific data structure to a non-technical person

- Is O(1) time algorithm the fastest. - Can an O(1) algorithm get faster? - Can signed and unsigned integers store the same number of values. - Is Quicksort the fastest sorting algorithm? - What is the difference between Set and List? - Is searching through a sorted binary tree (binary search tree) always have a better complexity than binary search? - Hashmap/hashtable is always more efficient (faster) than linear search? - Describe "recursion" to a non-technical person.
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Graduate Software Engineer

Interviewed at IMC Trading

4.1
Dec 3, 2021

- Is O(1) time algorithm the fastest. - Can an O(1) algorithm get faster? - Can signed and unsigned integers store the same number of values. - Is Quicksort the fastest sorting algorithm? - What is the difference between Set and List? - Is searching through a sorted binary tree (binary search tree) always have a better complexity than binary search? - Hashmap/hashtable is always more efficient (faster) than linear search? - Describe "recursion" to a non-technical person.

Initial in-person interview went through my resume and asked about my experience. There were also some light technical/design questions (e.g. easy leetcode type question, and questions about how I would identify and clean up messy code).
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Graduate Software Engineer

Interviewed at Deswik

3.7
Jun 10, 2022

Initial in-person interview went through my resume and asked about my experience. There were also some light technical/design questions (e.g. easy leetcode type question, and questions about how I would identify and clean up messy code).

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