Upstart interview notes, page 8 of 10

“Seemed trivial at first and I almost wrote a one-liner without thinking about the 'group' part.” 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 felt pretty good about the core logic until the edge cases started piling 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 approach came to me pretty quickly: sort the letters of each word in the list to build a lookup map, then do the same for each token in the scrambled input and check against the map.” 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 tripped me up more than I expected.” 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 pairing angle is what trips people up here.” 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 AI tooling part threw me a bit because most coding rounds punish you for not writing everything by hand.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Upstart, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is the kind of question where you can spiral fast if you don't anchor on the estimand first.” 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.

“Seemed simple at first and I went straight to a streams solution.” 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.

“Felt almost too easy at first so I kept waiting for a twist that never came.” 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.

“Started with recursion because it felt clean, then they pushed me on what happens with large n.” 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.