#Did you solve the coding question fully

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light nacelle
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Title

upper veldt
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Yes

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He had 2 follow up questions as well that I solve

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I did get a hint at the beginning which i think is very minimal but I guess that’s what disqualified me

idle jewel
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it might be, from what i gather the ideal performance at bb is

  • lay out your algo in a pristine fashion
  • explain it properly
  • clarify everything up front
  • jump into your code with minimal implementation trip ups
upper veldt
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That’s what I did. My issue was that I wrote

helper(root.left) and helper(root.right)

And not

Helper(root.left.val) and Helper(root.right.Val)

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And I before I could go over my code and catch it he called me out on it. Like I would have noticed it, I just needed time

dim jackal
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Lmaoo

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What

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That could get u rejected

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Dam

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Bloomberg is ruthless

upper veldt
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I mean like to be fair, that would give me an error in my code. But I wrote it and 1-2 mins later he said it was wrong. I had just finished writing the second line so I just needed more time to look at it again

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But oh well

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Just wanted them for negotiating other offers

idle jewel
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exactly same for me

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it's like we had mirrored experiences

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i'd write a line and 5 sec later have syntax pointed out to me

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the fact they don't let u run code is a double edged sword

upper veldt
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That’s funny. I hate when they do that. Like just give us a second to look over it and we’ll notice it

dim jackal
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Was the interviewer nice

upper veldt
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He didn’t seem super nice during the interview but he wasn’t mean. When we got to the question part he opened up and was super friendly

dense shell
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That’s such a nitpick

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Some interviewers are super fucking weird man

gleaming nacelle
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Hmm interesting my phone interviewer gave me what i feel like was a big hint and i ended up moving on maybe it was ur communication that cost u?

light nacelle
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My interviewer kinda guided me whenever my logic for finding the pivot element in “search rotated sorted array” but once I came to some solution he just kept “umm hmm”ing. Turns out there was a bug in my logic for that pivot element but the rest of the code is perfect. Doubt I’m gonna pass either tbh, we also went 12 mins over time which I think was a red flag

west coral
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interviewers are just weird. i had like a easy question for my phone (but rly fked it up). even got some help in fixing in (went 5-10 min over 45 min) to solve it, and somehow i moved on. dude sounded like he didn't wanna be there either.. i have no idea

upper veldt