Pure Storage

“Started with the obvious stuff: a central counter with a distributed lock.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Pure Storage, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Started at the brute force O(n^4) and worked down from there.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Pure Storage, 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 check slopes and distances separately and I immediately started going down a path involving floating point comparisons which felt wrong even as I was saying it.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Pure Storage, 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 the obvious answer, lock around the heap, condition variable to wake the worker when a new earliest-fire-time gets inserted.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Pure Storage, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Part A felt manageable.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Pure Storage, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I had a decent 'went well' story ready but the 'didn't go well' part is where I fumbled a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Pure Storage, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew the hash map piece pretty quickly but then stared at getRandom for an embarrassingly long time.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Pure Storage, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight into metrics and retention tactics but realized mid-answer I hadn't set up why churn was even a problem for that product.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Pure Storage, Hiring Manager 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 checking side lengths and forgot about the diagonal check.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Pure Storage, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I had a decent story but I buried the lead.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Pure Storage, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.