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Coding on a whiteboard. An easy question. I made bugs and did not finish, but got through anyway. The recruiter was rather grading the thought process than the details, which was a big, positive surprise for me.

In early 2014, a recruiter contacted me. I was set up with an engineer for a phone interview. The initial questions focused on my resume, covering simple details about projects I had worked on and my prior experience. Following that, I was asked tw

The phone screen started with basic Android questions. Then, we jumped into the coding part where I was given two questions. The first was to find the kth smallest element in an array of integers. The other was to balance parentheses in a parenthesis