Harvey interview notes, page 3 of 6

“Part 1 was basically a hashmap, took maybe five minutes.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Harvey, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The fact that it was literally their own product made it a bit surreal.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Harvey, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is basically the whole interview.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Harvey, 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 DFS setup but with a wrinkle.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Harvey, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The cycle detection part is what bit me.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Harvey, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The interviewer kept pushing back on my first instinct and asked me to justify why I picked what I picked.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Harvey, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Misread it at first.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Harvey, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This question had like seven sub-parts and I did not fully appreciate that until I was already three minutes into talking about SHA-256 vs MD5.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Harvey, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The first part is basically substring frequency counting, fine.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Harvey, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The tricky part is they don't just let you narrate the project.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Harvey, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.