!process meta reject (after final)

[crisp smelt]

did u get tagged? also did u get optimal?

[turbid stream]

recruiter initials?

[jagged furnace]

interviewer?

[vapid jolt]

Did u get optimal for both?

[lunar tundra]

yes, but I barely finished in time

[forest hemlock]

sorry about that mate

[lunar tundra]

yes, both tagged

[wispy magnet]

interviewer initials?

[lunar tundra]

I ended up with:

• one lc hard with tons of tons of edge cases (hint: lc editorial for that problem says the hard part is edge cases)
• one lc medium that is very implementation heavy - multiple people in the comments say this should be classified as hard (hint: why you shouldn't apply with multiple accts. think about what may happen)

[lunar tundra]

starts with j but do not remember last initial

[wispy magnet]

did u mess up time complexity?

[forest hemlock]

actually luck based interview questions

[crisp smelt]

thats fucked

[wispy magnet]

or space complexity, or needed a major fix in the solution?

[grave ravine]

ACCOUNTS MERGE? 😂 😂

😂 😂

if he solved both i dont understand why tho

[forest hemlock]

he required hint perhaps?

interviewer didnt vibe with u?

its okay man

[grave ravine]

sorry bro @lunar tundra

[forest hemlock]

fuck meta anyways

[lunar tundra]

probably it

interviewer was very cold and standoffish throughout

[grave ravine]

damn that sucks bruh. probably the reason

[jagged furnace]

international interviewer?

[crisp smelt]

[grave ravine]

accounts merge is cancer tho. u gotta implement DSU and hashmap spam hell

[lunar tundra]

another hint: does not require fancy algorithms, but tons of edge cases. within top 100 but after top 50 in tagged list.

[alpine monolith]

these are insane

[forest hemlock]

ye those are genuine just vibe checks dw bout it man, u got unlucky

[alpine monolith]

i remember seeing both during my studying and praying i wouldnt get them lmao

[lunar tundra]

yes

[jagged furnace]

chinese?

oman

[wispy magnet]

recruiter initials

?

[lunar tundra]

same

[vapid jolt]

When was ur final man? Also sorry man this is so rng based what the

[jagged furnace]

accounts merge is hard is hell how is this medium rip

[lunar tundra]

interviewer literally went out of his way to select the hardest problems possible

[jagged furnace]

tough, bad luck of the draw

[quasi sun]

what's that first 1

Q

[lunar tundra]

it is a lc hard question

between 50 - 100 in the tagged list

[quasi sun]

igu ty ty I think I found the one

sucks man

Dumb question

[lunar tundra]

it is

[lunar tundra]

also interviewer came late by 2 minutes

it is what it is. no amount of mock interviews could have prepared me for what I faced

[jagged furnace]

thats pretty unfortunate, seems like most people on this server get medium-easy questions and the success rate seems pretty high

[lunar tundra]

last Friday

so < 1 business day

[wispy magnet]

But u solved both optimally?

What were the Weak points in the interview in ur opinion?

[lunar tundra]

I missed a couple of edge cases initially

[lunar tundra]

but corrected them in the end

[jovial bloom]

how did you get rejected if u solved the problem optimally

wtf

they shouldn't expect anyone to solve every single edge case from the start 💀

[shy pelican]

my guess is ||insert into a sorted circular linked list||

[lunar tundra]

I received lc hard, the problem you guessed is medium

[shy pelican]

oh oops mb

[sturdy geyser]

https://leetcode.com/problems/valid-number/description/?envType=company&envId=facebook&favoriteSlug=facebook-thirty-days

?

[crisp smelt]

that one wasnt too bad

[shy pelican]

yeah i misread it as "medium but the edge cases make it hard", i just remember that problem having a lot of annoying cases

[silent ruin]

Oh yea that's second q is annoying as fuck

But there's a really quick dfs/connected components solution where you model the edges as the emails

If you didn't do the q before tho it might be hard to implement

I don't think it's worth make a DSU for it, but dfs / connected components should work out