Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - London, United Kingdom
Process
Had a 30-minute HR call and then a scheduled video coding interview.
The coding interviewer had a really thick accent and spoke super fast. During the interview, the interviewer proceeded to take a 3-minute phone call. Their internet then shortly disconnected, resulting in another few minutes of the call being lost.
This resulted in much less time to solve the coding problem, to which I attempted to solve. However, the interviewer didn't let me run my code and instead made me analyze it, which was fair enough. The interviewer then proceeded to teach me about Python's 'assert()' function for a few minutes while using it to test my code, which was irrelevant.
Overall, not fun.
Questions
UTF-8 Encoding
(Search on Leetcode; the version they ask is easier.)
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Interview Statistics
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