Pretty straightforward. I only got to the first technical round.

I chatted initially with the recruiter, which was a very pleasant experience. They were decently responsive and provided some prep material that was marginally helpful. "Study everything" – great advice! Coding fundamentals, data structures, etc.

I think Patreon might ask more "real-world" type word problems.

I was bummed. I got through both questions but wasn't able to run the code at the end of the second question before running out of time. It worked. I was immediately rejected the next day.

I'm a little confused by that rejection. The questions were challenging for me, so I probably wasn't very communicative or smooth in describing my process.

Create a function simulating a terminal.

This function takes a currentPath and a newPath as input.

It should implement behavior to go up a directory using '..'.

Examples:

• Current path: /a/x
• New path: w/y/../q
• Output: /a/x/w/q

Implement a rate limiter that allows N requests per second.

Each time a request comes in:

• Remove all requests older than 1 second ago.
• If the number of requests in the past second is less than N, accept the request and log the timestamp.
• Otherwise, reject the request.