Applied Intuition

“My first instinct was a stack of hashmaps, one per transaction level.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Applied Intuition, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This took me longer than I expected on the attention masking piece.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Applied Intuition, Take-home Assignment round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The interviewer nudged me toward thinking about prefix sums, which helped a lot.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Applied Intuition, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one wrecked me a little.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Applied Intuition, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The parsing part I was fine with, strip whitespace, split on equals, tokenize the expression.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Applied Intuition, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I've done parser stuff before but never under interview pressure and never from scratch in one sitting.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Applied Intuition, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with the brute force pretty quickly: run BFS from each marked point, accumulate distances per cell, track the minimum.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Applied Intuition, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is a lot to unpack in one question.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Applied Intuition, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew the general idea of a circular buffer but fumbled the full-vs-empty distinction under pressure.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Applied Intuition, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with the brute force since it's easier to explain and they seemed fine with that as a warmup.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Applied Intuition, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.