Software Engineer Interview Experience - Washington, District of Columbia
Process
Screening round.
The question could be rated as LC Medium, dynamic programming.
The interviewer forced me to use Java, even though I stated my preference for Python 3.
The interviewer was very nice, but the question felt more suited for an onsite interview.
Questions
Given a UNIX file path, return an array of sizes for every directory or file in that path. You are given some helper functions.
For example, /foo/cat.txt will return an array output: [10000, 3000, 500]
Where:
10000is the size of/3000is the size of/foo/500is the size of/foo/cat.txt
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