Squarepoint interview notes, page 1 of 2

“Started with a brute-force approach, counting n-3 diagonals from the first vertex, n-4 from the second, and so on.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Squarepoint, 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 think about a uniform distribution, which felt wrong almost immediately.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Squarepoint, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Said EMA, which was true and felt like a reasonable answer.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Squarepoint, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Standard opener.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Squarepoint, Recruiter / HR Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I saw max-heap pretty quickly, always pull the largest quantity, sell it, push quantity minus one back in.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Squarepoint, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The part I nearly got wrong was the global cap.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Squarepoint, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The single-transaction version I got pretty quickly.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Squarepoint, 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 by counting total outcomes (6^3 = 216) then tried to count strictly increasing triples.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Squarepoint, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Greedy with a max-heap, pretty much.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Squarepoint, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This was the one I was least prepared for going in.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Squarepoint, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.