Block

SWE Intern Interview Experience - South Korea

December 1, 2022

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Online Assessment:

CodeSignal, proctored by screen recording and webcam to show face.
2-hour limit for 4 problems.
Two problems were very doable.
One required some time designing the code.
Couldn't understand the last problem (the problem below).

Questions

LeetCode - Restore the Array From Adjacent Pairs

Very similar.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Block SWE Intern role in South Korea.

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Block's interview process for their SWE Intern roles in South Korea is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Block's SWE Intern interview process in South Korea.

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