Liftoff

“The basic RLE part I had down.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Liftoff, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Parsing was the main thing to get right.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Liftoff, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Classic BFS and I knew it immediately, which honestly made me a little sloppy at first.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Liftoff, 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 with '1c' for singles instead of just 'c' and said so upfront, which I think was the right call since it simplifies decode a lot.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Liftoff, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I'd never heard of the Eddington number before so I spent an embarrassing amount of time just re-reading the definition.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Liftoff, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I'd never heard of the Eddington number before so I spent a minute just re-reading the problem to make sure I understood what it was asking.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Liftoff, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is a bigger scope than it looks on paper.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Liftoff, Take-home Assignment round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This took way longer than I budgeted.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Liftoff, Take-home Assignment round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The embedded IPv4 part is what got me.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Liftoff, 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 just split on ":" and pad each piece, and that worked fine for the simple cases.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Liftoff, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.