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leaden zephyr Dec 8, 2021, 4:46 PM

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Congrats! How did final go for you? All tagged?

crisp gale Dec 8, 2021, 4:50 PM

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solved all optimally?

cosmic plank Dec 8, 2021, 5:03 PM

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thanks! final went well for me, all 4 questions were tagged

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i got optimal solutions and follow ups for all 4 questions, but i had an edge case missing in the last one

onyx mulch Dec 8, 2021, 5:04 PM

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congrats how many tagged did you do in total?

cosmic plank Dec 8, 2021, 5:05 PM

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i completed the top 50 a couple times over

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and glanced at 50-70

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but more so just studied the general topics, like trees, bfs/dfs, string theory, etc

onyx mulch Dec 8, 2021, 5:07 PM

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cosmic plank but more so just studied the general topics, like trees, bfs/dfs, string theory,...

smart maybe I should study general topics more, thank you for answering🙏🏼

cosmic plank Dec 8, 2021, 5:29 PM

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yeah ofc! the anxiety is real

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good luck!

steel wedge Dec 8, 2021, 5:40 PM

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How long did it take for you between onsite and then the offer?

leaden zephyr Dec 8, 2021, 5:42 PM

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cosmic plank i got optimal solutions and follow ups for all 4 questions, but i had an edge ca...

Thanks! Always wondered about what these follow ups entailed? Is it like asking valid palindrome 2 after valid palindrome 1 (what if you can remove one character, is it still a palindrome)? And then you just need to quickly describe an approach?

cosmic plank Dec 8, 2021, 5:44 PM

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steel wedge How long did it take for you between onsite and then the offer?

my two technicals were on Nov 16, and then I had behavioral on Nov 29 cuz i had to wait after break

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and i heard back last night

steel wedge Dec 8, 2021, 5:45 PM

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Oh ok awesome. Did you ever email your recruiter for updates after the behavioral?

cosmic plank Dec 8, 2021, 5:46 PM

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leaden zephyr Thanks! Always wondered about what these follow ups entailed? Is it like asking ...

the follow ups I got were mostly "could you do this in O(1) space" or "could you do this in O(n) time" or "what would you change to solve this using bfs/instead of dfs"

cosmic plank Dec 8, 2021, 5:46 PM

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steel wedge Oh ok awesome. Did you ever email your recruiter for updates after the behaviora...

nah, he said they would take anywhere from 5-10 days to get back, and I was busy with school work so I forgot to ask

leaden zephyr Dec 8, 2021, 5:47 PM

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Oh interesting, so if you already solved it optimally I’m assuming they couldn’t really ask that though? And for the bfs/dfs thing wouldn’t you sort of just say, I’d use a stack instead of a queue and vice-versa? I mean obviously a bit more in detail but yeah

cosmic plank Dec 8, 2021, 5:47 PM

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pretty much yeah

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so for one of my questions

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i had a O(n) space complexity solution

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and interviewer asked if i could do it on O(1) space

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so i spent a few minutes thinking about it and then implemented the fully optimal solution

steel wedge Dec 8, 2021, 5:48 PM

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cosmic plank nah, he said they would take anywhere from 5-10 days to get back, and I was busy...

Got it, thanks!

cosmic plank Dec 8, 2021, 5:48 PM

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np!

cosmic plank Dec 8, 2021, 5:49 PM

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leaden zephyr Oh interesting, so if you already solved it optimally I’m assuming they couldn’t...

but I know that you can get followups like the one you described where the interviewer makes a small change to the initial question and asks how your solution would change

leaden zephyr Dec 8, 2021, 5:51 PM

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Thanks for all the info! Appreciate it!

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And congrats again!!

cosmic plank Dec 8, 2021, 5:59 PM

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yeah of course

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good luck!

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and thank you!

little latch Dec 12, 2021, 3:28 AM

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Were the 4 tagged questions you got medium and hards??

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I have my final on monday, but i feel like im not too confident about the hard tagged questions :3

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