Process
One phone interview.
Questions were asked about linked lists and strings.
The first question was pretty easy. The first part of the second problem (a stepping stone) was also easy, but the last part (a DP problem) was much harder.
Because of the gap in difficulty, I kind of underestimated the last one and tried to solve it with simple recursion. Although I knew DP might be a better solution, I didn't have time to improve my answer.
Questions
String searching questions, DP style.
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