GOAT???

[fierce creek]

title

[wind needle]

congrats twin

[stone adder]

YAYYY

[bleak portal]

jesussss

[pale echo]

orz

orz

orz

[bleak portal]

what location fam

[echo hemlock]

redmond

[primal void]

https://tenor.com/view/dillon-brooks-memphis-grizzlies-dillon-brooks-dance-brooks-dance-dillon-dance-gif-2443510758963463953

we up

[brave tundra]

what was process like

[pale echo]

^

[echo hemlock]

msft still 🐐

[orchid siren]

unironic lol?

i cant tell

[echo hemlock]

im srs

[orchid siren]

wtf

[brave tundra]

thats crazzy

[bleak portal]

pls notice me microsoft ;-;

[orchid siren]

"hmm so we could go throug hthe first half and store the counter of it in a dictionary, then the other half, and compare if theyre equal

[bleak portal]

^^^^ did you play dumb or jus solved in 3 min sldhfalsdjflaksdf

[echo hemlock]

stop

[bleak portal]

oh WAIT ! but we could ALSO ! use 2 pointers !!!!!

[echo hemlock]

i went slow

[bleak portal]

LMAOOOOO

bro put on a performance

[random magnet]

Is it just one phone round or multiple?

[orchid siren]

this would improve our space complexity to O(1)! truly fascinating 🔥

[bleak portal]

immediate hire - candidate was able to optimize algorithm on the fly

[echo hemlock]

2 interviews for final round

[orchid siren]

LOL

[echo hemlock]

I spent time thinking of dumb way to solve it

[orchid siren]

thats lowk the worst sol i could come up with is usinga hashmap on both parts 😭

[echo hemlock]

I constructed the reverse string

[orchid siren]

this was the hard part of ur interview

[bleak portal]

candidate addressed edge cases with ease - immediate hire

[orchid siren]

💀

[echo hemlock]

and checked if they were equal

then I used two pointers

Nah

I got top k frequent elements

Med

[orchid siren]

bro thats just heapq too 😭

[fleet stream]

@echo hemlock did u interview on 19th or 21st?

[orchid siren]

wher my msft final

[bleak portal]

so we could just sort the list in reverse order and iterate through the list up to k but....i think we could do....better.....

[fleet stream]

do u know org?

[orchid siren]

but how.... hmm what if we apply the concept of data structure to this problem... lets go through. arraylist wont work, linkedlist wont work, hashmap wont work. OH WAIT? WHAT ABOUT A HEAPQ???

[fleet stream]

or what org your interviewers were in

[bleak portal]

RAAAAAHH RAH RAHHHH HRAAAAHHH RAHHHHH

[violet relic]

how did u solve this

heap or quickselect

[serene shell]

congrat

[bleak portal]

immediate hire - candidate was not required to implement quickselect solution but adequately summarized the functionality, tradeoffs, and complexities of quickselect

[echo hemlock]

quickselect

my fav div n conquer

[fierce creek]

praxis had to cosplay crudbob for a bit

thats gold

i would do anything for recording of praxis msft interview

[south ravine]

orz orz

[torn oak]

Same I’d actually love to see that

Man’s acting skills might be Hollywood tier

[hybrid grail]

aint no way this guy got valid palindrome and top k frequent elements

did u just get reached out to for phone interview?

[fleet stream]

its only final this year

[echo hemlock]

CoreOS

ty

[nocturne steppe]

Are you serious

Please don't tell me it was that easy

[echo hemlock]

yes

im deadass

[nocturne steppe]

I wish I had interviews that easy 😅

[echo hemlock]

behavioral was hardest part prob

[foggy star]

damn rlly what did they ask in behavioral?

congrats!!

[wind needle]

💀 this sounds way too real

[bleak portal]

exact script from praxis interview