Software Engineer Interview Experience - Australia
Process
1st round - LeetCode-type coding test on PuTTY.
The server was in the US, and I was typing from Sydney, so there was a lot of lag. Anyway, I cleared it.
In this day and age, with very good online code collaboration tools available, I'm not sure why they are going with PuTTY.
2nd round - Asked about a multithreading scenario. Answered around 80% of it correctly. Same problem with PuTTY again.
3rd round - Started off innocently with STLs. Then the interviewer started deep diving into unordered_set implementation and asked me to code it up.
At one point, to answer the interviewer's sub-question, I said to make an assumption that a pointer is 4 bytes. He started laughing. I didn't have much hope after that, and predictably, the interview went south from there.
Questions
Remove all nodes with a value N. A multi-threading scenario question. Unordered_set implementation.
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