ByteDance interview notes, page 4 of 29

“I knew it was a DP problem pretty quickly but then fumbled explaining the recurrence relation out loud.” 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.

“I went with binary search on a real interval and it worked, but I fumbled the complexity analysis for 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.

“Classic cycle detection problem dressed up as a scheduling question.” 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 formula cold but fumbled the first version by just writing exp(x) / sum(exp(x)) and they immediately asked what happens with large values.” 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.

“Two pointers.” 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 basic island count with BFS/DFS I can do in my sleep, but the 'distinct' part tripped me up for 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.

“This was a weird 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.

“This one is sneaky because your instinct is to pick an example that makes you look self-aware without making you look incompetent.” 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.

“Performed poorly and the interviewer just moved on.” 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 sounds easy until you realize they're using your answer as a map to attack you.” 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.