#!process Zon offer 🥳
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congrate! when did you get? timeline?
congrats!!
Timeline??
2:51pm PST today (I emailed them yesterday at 3pm asking for update)
Dude that’s crazy i follwed up around the same time and i only got bs reply
😭😭
I am yet to be schedule for interview. I followed up and they replied that they are working on schedule,
What did they ask in Interview.?
OA 12/13
Recruiter asked to resubmit photo ID 12/23
Interview Invite 1/16
VO 2/6
Offer 2/19
@lament nexus
10 minutes of behavioral, i lowkey don't remember exactly what they asked but it was pretty generic questions with like underlying LPs
Damn they asked me too for the id thing
30 minutes of coding
they asked me given a string, return the first character that does NOT have duplicates
i solved it in 5 minutes with O(N) time and space, and then they told me to optimize it ☹️
i lowkey couldnt do it so i had to get hella hints from interviewer but then once he told me i had to use a queue i was able to solve it fully
it made it one pass but with space sacrifice
idk i brought that up actually and he said to not use that
oh its cuz he wanted 1 pass
that would still require 2 passes
i did it wrong LMAO
so im not 100% sure the correct answer
the interviewer didnt notice tho
ONG
if you iterate through string isn't it just one pass?
oh wait nvm yeah 2 pass
but queue is also 2 pass?
@foggy acorn did you get a survey before the decision?
oh yea
survey on monday
idk he told me to use a queue so i used a queue 💀
u also gotta use a hashset to store the characters
idk
yeah idk what the point of the queue is
bottom line is he wanted 1 pass solution with space sacrifice
i just started listing off every single array solution i could think of lmfao
and he eventually told me "use a queue"
i did all of neetcode 150 except for DP (fuck dp) and backtracking
and bit operations
and then i did like 40 ish tagged leetcode for amazon before giving up and saying fuck it we ball
wait i'm working rn but if u shoot me a dm ill give you all the details of my interview
i sent a very long rant to my mentors right after my interview
so i have logs of everything
lowkey i thought it was 50 50
like i was stuck for a good 20 minutes
he had to keep giving me hints
they were kinda bad hints but
whatever
offer if offer
i dont understand the point of the queue vs just iterating through the chars in the string
oh actually queue is O(26) second pass
but string is O(N)
yeah
no if you use queue you just go through the chars in the queue instead of the string in the second pass
but you always need a pass to count number of chars with a dict
yeah
anyone who wants more details dm me ill get back to you in a few hours tonight
I guess the pass through the queue isn't a real pass so its one pass
yeah but since there are only max of 26 chars in the queue that is faster than iterating through a very large string
can u check dms @foggy acorn