Technical Screen

Failed the Easy Card Game Problem in the Technical Screen

AffirmSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Sep 2026

I had reviewed nothing but hard problems and never reviewed this easy kind of one, and of course that's what I got. Ha. The problem: 52 playing cards, shuffle first, and each person takes a pile. Each round you compare whose top card is bigger. The side with the bigger card seems to take the other side's card too and put it aside together with their own (I forgot the exact rules, but I think that…

Shared by a candidate · reported Sep 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.