Block

Android Embedded Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

September 2, 2016

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Recruiter reached out to me. Phone screening with the recruiter. Online technical interview. On site.

After the online coding exercise, the recruiter never came back with feedback and ignored all of my emails. I will definitely add them to my blacklist. If only they had asked interesting questions relevant to the domain...

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Block Interview Questions

Rotating the Box

Medium

Simulate a box tilting to the right, causing stones to fall until they hit obstacles or the floor. Re-arrange the characters in a given grid to reflect the resulting state of the box.

ArraysTwo Pointers

Squirrel Simulation

Medium

Imagine a squirrel trying to collect nuts efficiently. Find the minimum distance the squirrel must travel to collect all nuts and bring them to a tree, given the locations of the squirrel, tree, and nuts.

ArraysGreedy Algorithms

Word Break

Medium

Determine if a given string can be segmented into a space-separated sequence of words from a dictionary. You are given a string and a dictionary of words; can you break the string down using words from the dictionary?

ArraysStringsDynamic Programming