Twilio

Software Engineering Intern Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

October 1, 2020

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Process

I interviewed with Twilio in the fall of 2020. The process was as follows:

They first send out an OA that consists of two standard DS&A questions. Both of these questions were medium-hard string manipulation questions.
After passing the OA, you move straight to the final onsite, which consists of one technical round and one behavioral, both about 45 minutes long.

Questions

Why do you want to intern at Twilio?

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Twilio Interview Questions

Maximize Greatness of an Array

Medium

Given an array of numbers, rearrange it to maximize the number of indices where array[i] < rearranged_array[i]. Essentially, you want to maximize how many numbers in the array can be replaced by a strictly larger number from within the same array.

ArraysTwo PointersGreedy Algorithms

Univalued Binary Tree

Easy

Determine if a binary tree is univalued, meaning every node has the same value. You need to check if all nodes in the tree contain the same value.

TreesRecursion

Reformat Date

Easy

You're given a date string in a specific format (e.g., "20th Oct 2052") and need to convert it to a standardized format (YYYY-MM-DD).

Strings