JPMorgan Chase interview notes, page 5 of 7

“Pretty clean calculation once you remember expected value is just the probability-weighted average.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at JPMorgan Chase, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Classic problem, felt fine.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at JPMorgan Chase, 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 short-code generation and spent probably too long debating hashing versus a counter with base62 encoding versus a distributed ID approach.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at JPMorgan Chase, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was greedy: always pick the largest available character.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at JPMorgan Chase, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one stung a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at JPMorgan Chase, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I rambled a bit trying to cover everything at once.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at JPMorgan Chase, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was binary search on the answer, which was wrong.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at JPMorgan Chase, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The trick is recognizing that the nested part is just x again, so you get x = sqrt(2 + x), square both sides, and solve the quadratic.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at JPMorgan Chase, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This was the whole interview basically.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at JPMorgan Chase, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Classic frequency map problem.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at JPMorgan Chase, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.