On-campus interview.
Two back-to-back interviewers.
One tested mostly coding aptitude. The other tested mostly algorithms/data structures questions.
No particular language was required. The material covered what a basic undergraduate algorithms/data structures course would.
Needed to pseudo-code a sorting algorithm.
Basic questions about binary search trees/heaps.
Few questions about NP-hardness.
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