This is for the 3-hour Powerday.

Technical Interview

Basically, I was given a JSON object (an ArrayList<>>) and needed to parse the information into hashmaps. Then, I was asked to return the top K elements, similar to a LeetCode problem, from the data I parsed.

Behavioral

There was a brief intro, and then we jumped into three standard "tell me about a time" questions with a few follow-ups to each of my responses. The questions were:

• A time when you challenged the status quo?
• A time when you learned something new?
• I can't remember the third.

Case

The interviewer presented a scenario, and I had to give my thoughts and opinions about it. Think of it as a back-and-forth discussion with your interviewer. My scenario was based on a chatbot.

This was followed by the actual technical portion. The interviewer pasted a bunch of code and gave me a few minutes to read and understand it. From there, I was asked to explain it and give any suggestions to refactor it to make it better. The rest of the time was spent modifying the code for a specific scenario he provided.

A time when you challenged the status quo?

A time when you learned something new?