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      Software Engineering Interview

      9 Jan 2017
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Airbnb (San Francisco, CA) in Dec 2016

      Interview

      The current internship interview process is comprised of two remote rounds, an initial round and an "onsite" round. Both consist of an online coderpad environment (which your solutions are expected to compile on). Initial round is one 45 minute call, while the "onsite" round is two 45 minute calls. Personally, for me the first round went fine, however the second round was particularly challenging due to both the technical questions asked and technical difficulties on both parties (first interviewer was almost 10 minutes late and second interviewer had trouble connecting via Skype, resulting in the interview starting 20+ min later).

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Round 1: Given a menu (list of items prices), find all possible combinations of items that sum a particular value K. (A variation of the typical 2sum/Nsum questions). Round 2: Given a flight itinerary consisting of starting city, destination city, and ticket price (2d list) - find the optimal price flight path to get from start to destination. (A variation of Dynamic Programming Shortest Path) Given a list of sorted words from an alien dictionary, find the order of the alphabet. (Alien Dictionary Topological Sort - https://discuss.leetcode.com/topic/22476/16-18-lines-python-30-lines-c)
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