Initial recruitment screen to gauge logistics and lightly peruse your background and interest.

First technical round comprised of two LeetCode medium difficulty problems under a time constraint of roughly 40 minutes for both. The interviewers may give hints to guide you, but too many hints might signal that you’re not meeting expectations.

Preparation Tips:

• Familiarize yourself with the LeetCode 75 or 150 problems, focusing on medium-to-hard difficulty.
• Practice coding in a pressure environment and explaining your approach as you go.

I didn't make it past the initial technical, but here's an overview:

Q1 Focus: Optimization skills and problem-solving efficiency. Q2 Focus: Ability to design and utilize custom data structures while demonstrating a deep understanding of algorithm complexity and performance trade-offs.

Array Problem to assess medium difficulty Algo knowledge:

The problem involves testing whether you can optimize an O(n^2) time complexity algorithm into an O(n) solution. This typically requires identifying a more efficient approach, such as using hash maps, sliding windows, or prefix sums, depending on the context.