Grammarly interview notes, page 4 of 5

“Spent the first minute just trying to figure out who actually cares about this feature.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Grammarly, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew the greedy approach here: sort by end time, walk through and count removals whenever the current start is before the last recorded end.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Grammarly, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Sort by start, then walk through and merge if the current interval overlaps the last one in your result list.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Grammarly, 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 binary search cold, or thought I did.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Grammarly, 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 the basic set/delete/count part down quickly.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Grammarly, 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 depth part cold, that's just a standard recursion problem.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Grammarly, 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 cycle detection part went fine, slow and fast pointer, they meet inside the cycle and you return true.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Grammarly, 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 a working solution going with a linear scan first, which they accepted but you could tell they wanted more.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Grammarly, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The part that got me was 'your specific role.' I kept sliding into 'we did this, we decided that' and the interviewer kept pulling me back.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Grammarly, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one ate up the entire session.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Grammarly, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.