Kikoff·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen
Jul 2026
Kikoff software engineer screen, one coding question the whole time. Pretty focused on file parsing and output formatting, nothing algorithmic, more about whether you can write clean practical code.
- Given a CSV file with transaction records (Merchant, Amount, Date, Status), write a script that parses the file and prints each transaction as a formatted two-line block with specific spacing, dollar formatting, and delimiter lines. Row order must be preserved and fields should be trimmed before formatting.
“More annoying than hard, tbh.”