leaden knot
9/26: Recuiter reachout
**10/3: **Submitted OA; Full test cases on 1,2,4 and half of 3
**10/4: **I received an email that I am moving to the final rounds of interviews
10/15: 1st technical: First Question: Partially solved initially. I had to return to it after completing the second question. When I came back, I almost finished it, and the interviewer stopped me and said I see where you are going and asked for time and space complexity.
Second Question: Successfully solved within 7 minutes with time to spare, even after implementing a requested modification, so we returned to the first question.
10/21 Training Coding
First Question: I had the same problem as the first official interview, so I knew how to solve it immediately. I could do good dry runs with the examples and answer the follow-up questions properly.
**Second Question: **Challenging problem (LC hard), unfamiliar, not on Meta's typical list, so I provided initial brute force, improved with a more efficient approach but couldn’t fully implement before time ran out and I gave correct time/space complexity. When I checked the solution after, I realized I was on the right track and pretty close to the solution.
11/4: 2nd Techincal
First Question: I solved it quickly, within about eight minutes, so he kept asking me more questions until we reached the halfway mark. Second Question: I solved the problem within the given time, did the dry runs, and answered his follow-up questions.
11/13: Behavorial
My interviewer was very friendly, and I could answer all of his questions/follow-ups. I also asked him good questions afterward; he even said this is a very uncommon question I get but answered it. Overall I think it went really well I made sure to stick to STAR method.
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