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“First thing I fumbled was the inclusive endpoint part.” 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 started with ps and top because those are the obvious ones, then remembered /proc and that's where things got interesting.” 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.

“Not bad if you happen to know the function they're looking for.” 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.

“This is a lot to hold in your head at once.” 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.

“I fumbled the time window part initially.” 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.

“I gave a reasonable answer about Git holding the desired state and ArgoCD polling for changes, but I fumbled a bit explaining WHY that model is better than imperative kubectl commands.” 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.

“This question is basically six questions duct-taped together and they want you to cover all of 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.

“I knew sliding window was the right move but fumbled the part where you shrink from the left while keeping the distinct count at exactly k.” 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.

“The word 'convolution' threw me off at first because I kept thinking about the flipped-kernel version from math class.” 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 approachable once you realize you just enumerate all valid combinations.” 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.