They tested me on their leadership principles and algorithms and data structure problems. I was interviewed by four SDEs. One was from a different team.
Each interview took around 45 minutes, with 15 minutes dedicated to principles and 30 minutes to coding.
Three Sum variation. Given 'cat', 'rat', 'sat'. Write a program to determine if it is possible to get from 'cat' to 'sat'.
This is a problem on arrays, an interval problem.
They gave equal importance to leadership principles.
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