Nextdoor interview notes, page 3 of 3

“Recognized it as LC 56 pretty fast, but the weekday dimension threw me off for a minute.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Nextdoor, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Pretty standard if you've seen it before.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Nextdoor, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Warmup question, COUNT(*) on users.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Nextdoor, 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 a lot.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Nextdoor, Take-home Assignment round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Prepared something about local community impact and how the product sits at an interesting intersection of social graph and real-world geography.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Nextdoor, Recruiter / HR Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The grouping part clicked pretty fast but I fumbled on the score assignment for a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Nextdoor, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The base topological sort was fine, but the lexicographic requirement tripped me up for a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Nextdoor, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Started fine with the basic numeric comparison, split on dots, parseInt to drop leading zeros, pad shorter arrays with zeros.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Nextdoor, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The merging logic itself is pretty standard but I lost a few minutes fumbling with the parsing step.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Nextdoor, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.