ByteDance interview notes, page 16 of 29

“This one sprawled in every direction.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning 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.

“Classic 2D DP.” 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 plain BFS and I started coding it before catching myself.” 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.

“Sliding window with two pointers, pretty much textbook.” 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.

“Backtracking problem, classic but still annoying under pressure.” 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.

“The greedy line-filling part was straightforward enough, just accumulate words until the next one doesn't fit.” 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'd seen this problem before so I knew the answer was 1/4, but actually deriving it cleanly under pressure is another thing.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist 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.

“Tree problem, not the hardest thing in the world but you need to think carefully about when to cut a node and what to do with its children.” 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.

“Took me a minute to realize the impossible case isn't just about counts being off.” 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 went straight to backtracking, include or exclude at each step and emit the current subset at every node.” 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.