SoFi interview notes, page 3 of 7

“The logic itself isn't hard.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SoFi, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“They didn't just want one answer and move on.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SoFi, 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 dump everything into a set and sort descending, which works but they pushed back immediately asking if I could do better given the inputs are already sorted.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SoFi, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The example they gave made it pretty obvious the answer was 5 since it showed up in all four rows.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SoFi, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This question is wider than it looks.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SoFi, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew what Monte Carlo meant in theory but had never actually coded one under pressure.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SoFi, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew the surface answer but fumbled explaining the CI/CD angle clearly.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SoFi, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I'd never heard the term 'LinkedList + HashMap' used together as a named pattern before, so when the interviewer just dropped that phrase and stopped talking, I was genuinely lost for a second.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SoFi, 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 Software Engineer interview at SoFi, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Jumped straight to simulating all three starting choices and got something working, but it was O(N^2) and they asked me to do better.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SoFi, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.