Process
Phone screen with two different engineers, an hour each. They both asked two questions.
The first interviewer asked one programming question and then added onto different versions of the question.
The second interviewer asked about testing, specifically what type of tests I would write to check standard inputs in a given function. The second question was about traversing a LinkedList.
Questions
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A basic data structures question with hashmaps/hashtables
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Traversing a linked list
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