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Hive.ai

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Hive.ai is an artificial intelligence company that provides cloud-based AI models and APIs for content moderation, visual and audio understanding, and other enterprise machine learning tasks. It is known for its automated content moderation solutions used by digital platforms, as well as its work in AI-generated content detection.

3 interview notes · updated Jul 2026

Hive.ai·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Jun 2026
Coding round at Hive.ai for a software engineer role, one algorithmic problem that looks deceptively simple but has a few gotchas if you haven't seen it before.
  • Given an array of integers, sort it using only pancake flips. A pancake flip reverses the subarray from index 0 to k-1. Return the sequence of k values used. Any solution within 10 * n flips is acceptable.

“I knew the general idea pretty quickly: find the max in the unsorted portion, flip it to the front, then flip it into its correct position at the end.”

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Hive.ai·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Jun 2026
Interviewed for a software engineering role at Hive.ai and got a grid-based BFS problem that looked deceptively straightforward. The algorithmic constraint made it more interesting than a typical graph traversal warmup.
  • Given an n×n grid of land and water cells, find the water cell that is farthest from any land cell and return its Manhattan distance. If the grid has no land or no water at all, return -1. You need to solve it in O(n²) time.

“My first instinct was BFS from each water cell individually, which would've been way too slow.”

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Hive.ai·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Apr 2026
Coding round at Hive.ai for a software engineer role. One grid problem, felt straightforward once I remembered the BFS angle, but I definitely fumbled around for a bit before getting there.
  • Given an n x n binary grid where 0 is water and 1 is land, find the water cell with the maximum Manhattan distance to its nearest land cell and return that distance. Return -1 if no land or no water exists.

“I started thinking about running BFS from each water cell individually which would have been way too slow.”

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