I recently attended a face-to-face interview at the SquarePoint office in Bengaluru. The interviewer was quite helpful and created a comfortable environment, but I feel I could have performed better in some areas.

The interview focused primarily on Rust and covered several fundamental concepts. Some of the key topics discussed were:

Ownership and borrowing

Difference between Copy and clone

Heap vs. Stack space and where static lifetime variables reside in the memory layout

Differences between String and &str

A detailed discussion on my current project

In addition to the technical questions, the interview also included a pair programming session where I was asked to solve a problem using a HashMap.

Although I made a few mistakes, the interviewer remained supportive and gave valuable hints to help me get back on track. It was a great learning experience overall.

https://leetcode.com/discuss/post/279913/bloomberg-onsite-key-value-store-with-tr-kcrv/

The same question was asked to be solved in Rust only.