Upstart interview notes, page 7 of 10

“I started by thinking about it left-to-right and almost got the dependency direction backwards.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Upstart, 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 system design depth and structured it as situation-action-result, which felt right in the moment.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Upstart, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The capacity simulation part was fine, I just tracked how many seats were occupied and toggled on arrival vs departure.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Upstart, 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 defaultdict to accumulate sums and counts in one pass, then divided at the end and sorted with sorted() using a lambda on the value.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Upstart, 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 just the binomial pmf so I wasn't stressed, but I fumbled slightly explaining why the combinations term is there.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Upstart, Recruiter / HR Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Spent the first few minutes just re-reading the problem because the entry/exit duality in the same records array tripped me up.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Upstart, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The row and column checks felt straightforward, just a set per row and per column.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Upstart, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This sounds easy until you're in it and they start poking at every decision you made.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Upstart, 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 it was a DP problem pretty fast, but I fumbled around with top-down recursion first before realizing I was overcomplicating the space usage.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Upstart, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The core logic wasn't too bad to reason through but I fumbled the edge cases.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Upstart, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.