Block

Senior Mobile Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

July 1, 2024

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I completed a take-home project that I had about a week to work on.

I spent approximately 5 hours on it, including writing a README file to submit with it.

It took some time to get graded, but I heard back about one week after I submitted it.

Questions

Design an employee directory app.

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Block's interview process for their Senior Mobile Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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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