ByteDance interview notes, page 13 of 29

“I'd seen linked list reversal before but never with this grouping twist.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ByteDance, 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 the kind of question that sounds manageable until you realize they want the whole stack.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ByteDance, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew the LRU part cold, hashmap plus doubly linked list, done that a dozen times.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ByteDance, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I got through the mechanics fine: compute Q, K, V projections, dot Q with K-transpose, scale, softmax, multiply by V.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at ByteDance, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was to just do DFS for each word separately.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ByteDance, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Only had about 10 minutes left when they dropped the coding problem on me.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ByteDance, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew this one.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ByteDance, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Pretty standard SQL filter and sort, nothing tricky about the logic itself.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ByteDance, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew this was a sliding window problem the moment I read it, but I still fumbled the edge cases around spaces and symbols.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ByteDance, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I initially said WebSocket for everything and had to walk it back mid-discussion.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ByteDance, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.