Sliding window problem on arrays to start, solved it in Python and we spent the rest of the time walking through my projects. Second round was a system design question about real time notifications at scale, interviewer was helpful when I got stuck on the fanout logic. Whole process took about 3 weeks.
Questions Asked
1.“Count the number of ways to decode a digit string into letters (e.g. '12' → 'AB' or 'L')”
Software Engineer
Los Angeles, CA
Fall 2025No Offer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Computer Science
3rd year · 3.3-3.6 GPA · 1 past internship
Average Interview
TechnicalVirtualPoor Communication
Tree problem, lowest common ancestor with extra constraints. Missed an edge case. Made it to the technical screen after a phone call but recruiter never followed up
Questions Asked
1.“Find the longest palindromic substring in a string”
Software Engineer
Los Angeles, CA
Summer 2026No Offer
University of Michigan · Computer Science
2nd year · 2.9-3.2 GPA · 0 past internships
Average Interview
Technical
Recruiter call was fast, 15 min tops. Then they sent a HackerRank with two medium problems on string manipulation and graph traversal. They passed 3 weeks later with no feedback
Questions Asked
1.“Describe a technical concept you had to teach someone recently. How did you approach it?”
2.“Given a binary tree return its level-order traversal.”