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The screening interview was a very simple question: find restaurant ranges. The interviewer was an Indian woman, very easy to talk to. Then the VO mentioned there would be three rounds of coding for t
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The screening interview was a very simple question: find restaurant ranges. The interviewer was an Indian woman, very easy to talk to. Then the VO mentioned there would be three rounds of coding for the recruiter, and I was stunned...
Round 1 A casual, informal question.
Round 2 Matching spam. Given logs of phone calls and reported incidents, if a report's time was close to a call's time, it was spam.
Return a list of how many times each person was called.
Round 3 Same as the first round in this post: https://www.1point3acres.com/bbs/thread-1117476-1-1.html, I think it was a LeetCode problem (I forgot the question number). SD: A recurring geography question: rate limiter. BQ: In-depth questions about my projects; I felt completely hoarse by the end of the interview... If I pass smoothly, I'll update the package later. Please give me some points!
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This is a candidate experience report from a pinterest interview for a swe role during the take home round reported in 2025.
It covers the following topics: Rate Limiter .
Difficulty rating: Easy