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Coding questions were surprisingly easy. One was to write a method that outputs CSS from a weird home-grown version of LESS. IT was all pre-parsed, so all you had to do was figure out how to break out the styles into the correct child elements. Another was to write a method that can look at a collection of (MethodName, Timestamp, IsStart/IsStop ). The goal was to log the time it spends in any particular method, subtracting time spent in child methods. The final was given a set of mines on a grid, each mine having it's own blast radius, return the mine that, when detonated, would cause the most mines to go off. Finally, the architecture problem was to design auto-complete for stack overflows search bar. This is the interview I did poorly in, I think because I went too technical instead of defining the problem better, but I really don't know as the interviewer was not engaged and seemed like he had better things to do. First time in my interviewing that I've had them end it early.
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Senior Software Developer

Interviewed at Stack Overflow

3.3★
Oct 12, 2021

Coding questions were surprisingly easy. One was to write a method that outputs CSS from a weird home-grown version of LESS. IT was all pre-parsed, so all you had to do was figure out how to break out the styles into the correct child elements. Another was to write a method that can look at a collection of (MethodName, Timestamp, IsStart/IsStop ). The goal was to log the time it spends in any particular method, subtracting time spent in child methods. The final was given a set of mines on a grid, each mine having it's own blast radius, return the mine that, when detonated, would cause the most mines to go off. Finally, the architecture problem was to design auto-complete for stack overflows search bar. This is the interview I did poorly in, I think because I went too technical instead of defining the problem better, but I really don't know as the interviewer was not engaged and seemed like he had better things to do. First time in my interviewing that I've had them end it early.

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