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“I went straight to writing out the sequences and almost convinced myself the answer was 1/2 by symmetry, which would've been wrong.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Mavensecurities, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Spent way too long second-guessing myself on how to count valid arithmetic progressions.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Mavensecurities, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Counted the favorable outcomes for each color separately: C(3,3) for green, C(4,3) for red, C(2,3) for blue (which is zero).” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Mavensecurities, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I jumped straight to computing probabilities and almost forgot to subtract the cost of the bet from each EV calculation, which would've tanked my answer.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Mavensecurities, 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 the coupon collector's problem dressed up in a cereal box costume.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Mavensecurities, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Blanked for a second because I kept trying to assign the sums to specific pairs before setting up the algebra.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Mavensecurities, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.