Snowflake interview notes, page 8 of 14

“Standard stuff, nothing unexpected.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Snowflake, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The two-pointer setup clicked for me pretty fast, iterate l and push r as far right as it'll go while the condition holds.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Snowflake, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one sprawled fast.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Snowflake, 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 is a big one.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Snowflake, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The binary search setup is clean once you see it but I fumbled the decision rule explanation at first.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Snowflake, 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 problem is just a DFS with a dead-set filter, pretty mechanical.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Snowflake, 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 meaty one.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Snowflake, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The key insight is that doubling is just a left shift, and to maximize OR you want to concentrate all k doublings on the largest element.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Snowflake, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I jumped straight to BFS with in-degree tracking, which worked, but I fumbled a bit explaining why I return empty when there's a cycle.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Snowflake, 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 a two-pointer style single pass, left to right, tracking the last seen person or cake and updating a running minimum.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Snowflake, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.