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“My first instinct was to brute force it with nested loops and I started explaining that before catching myself.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at IBM, 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 straight to user personas and kind of rambled for a bit before anchoring on a core use case.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at IBM, 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 had an answer ready but it came out way more rehearsed than I wanted.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at IBM, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Pretty standard opener but I underestimated how long they'd want to stay on it.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at IBM, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Seemed straightforward at first but I second-guessed myself on what counts as a duplicate.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at IBM, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Pretty basic aggregate query.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at IBM, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I spent the first few minutes just simulating it on paper to convince myself I understood the operation correctly, which was probably the right call.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at IBM, 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 to think about this per-string, which was wrong.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at IBM, 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 tripped up initially because I was thinking about it per-string instead of globally.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at IBM, 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 VPC cold, isolated virtual network inside a public cloud, segmented subnets, security groups, the usual.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at IBM, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.