#!process Haven't heard from citadel in a

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radiant dove
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It took me 3 weeks to hear back after doing well on the phone. If you did fine you are likely okay

hollow horizon
radiant dove
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This was in november

hollow horizon
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I think i did ok? I solved the q but if he had followups I am cooked

radiant dove
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This is is for SWE right

hollow horizon
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Yes

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He was giving me detailed responses in the end. I hope thats a good sign

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How did yours go? @radiant dove

radiant dove
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It went good i canceled my onsite though

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Ill apply again next year maybe

hollow horizon
radiant dove
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I was done recruiting

dreamy heath
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dreamy heath
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thought obviously keep recruiting because just cuz you didnt get rejected from teechnical doesn't mean u made it through they might have just taken another candidate instead who did just as well as you

hollow horizon
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The feedback I got was: my past hft experience is great, algorithm was optimal and good, there s room for improvement, he seemed interested and was answering my questions in detail but the room for improvement caught me off guard

hollow horizon
dreamy heath
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Yea

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Fumbled hard lmao

hollow horizon
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Oops. Phone ?

dreamy heath
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Nah

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First round technical

hollow horizon
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Power day thing?

dreamy heath
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Idk what that is

hollow horizon
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It was the first ever intv u had with them?

dreamy heath
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no I had recruiter screen

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Then he sent me OA

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and i got first round from that

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which I fumbled

hollow horizon
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Ah ok yea same. Screen and this tech round

hollow horizon
dreamy heath
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It was Np hard

hollow horizon
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Sheesh

dreamy heath
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Needed a true solution for an NP problem I kept trying to do greedy (I knew what NP hard problem was conceptually, but when he was throwing the term at me I thought he just meant leetcode hard lmao)

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So I didnt really get close to a solution till the very end

hollow horizon
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Oh shoot 😂

dreamy heath
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Ya it is what it is

hollow horizon
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Yea I gotchu. I ve never gotten a np hard in a intv so honestly I d get tripped up bad too

dreamy heath
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honestly they're light in hind sight cuz u dont need to optimize

hollow horizon
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It's not meant for an intv anyways

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I see...

dreamy heath
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in terms of using a data structure in an interesting way

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like u just optimize through pruning

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that was just like my 2nd real technical interview ever

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so i was really nervous too

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im a lot more confident now

hollow horizon
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Could you summarize what kinda problem it was or is it hard to explain?