Initial interview: ~30 minutes.
Second interview: 1 hour coding assessment.
Final interview: 4 hours, broken into 4 interviews:
Tell me about a time you could not deliver a project on time.
Coding assessment: Write a function that, given an array of entities and an integer N, keeps looping around the array, removing the Nth remaining entity until only one entity remains. Return the remaining entity. (This may be the Birthday boy test).
Example: Input: 2 elements, example loop below ...A E....B ..D.C
Loop 1: Step 2 elements, flag B ...A E....[B] ..D.C
Loop 2: Step 2 elements, flag D ...A E....x .[D]C
Loop 3: Step 2 elements, Flag A ...[A] E....x ..x.C
Loop 4: Step 2 elements, Flag E (NOT C, since B no longer exists) ....x... [E]..x ..x.C..
Output: C
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