ByteDance interview notes, page 2 of 29

“The eviction policy is where people trip up.” 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 two-pointer approach is the whole point here, they weren't satisfied with anything that required two traversals.” 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.

“Post-order DFS was the right call and I got there, but explaining why I needed to track the downward gain separately from the global max took me longer than it should have.” 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 bit to even understand what 'two groups of equal length' meant from the problem statement.” 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 one stung because it came within like 60 seconds of me starting to describe the project.” 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.

“My first instinct was the two-pointer merge approach, which works but runs in O(k) and I could tell they wanted something better.” 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 sort-then-two-pointer approach going in, but the duplicate-skipping logic is where I always fumble a bit.” 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 general shape of the answer (date subtraction, row_number trick) but fumbled explaining it out loud.” 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 where they slow you down and start poking.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ByteDance, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I completely blanked on junction tables.” 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.