SIG (Susquehanna) interview notes, page 1 of 7

“Talked through it step by step and kept pausing to ask if my reasoning tracked.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SIG (Susquehanna), Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This looks like a textbook question until they ask the follow-up about nearly sorted data and you realize you picked quicksort as your lead example.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SIG (Susquehanna), Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Classic Bayes setup.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SIG (Susquehanna), Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The setup sounds clean but I fumbled the assumptions part at first.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SIG (Susquehanna), Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This wrecked me a little.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SIG (Susquehanna), Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I got through the derivation okay, took the gradient, set it to zero, got to (X'X)^{-1} X'y without too much fumbling.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SIG (Susquehanna), Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The bold strategy part is what makes this annoying.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SIG (Susquehanna), Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Set up three variables and the leg count equation.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SIG (Susquehanna), Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Set up the variables fine, cows = x, chickens = 2x, spiders = 4x.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SIG (Susquehanna), Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Straightforward on the surface but they wanted you to walk through every step out loud.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SIG (Susquehanna), Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.