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Two Phone Screens, Easy Coding Then a Distributed Cache Design

AppleSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026

This was for ASE, on the storage infra team. Phone screen round 1: the HM, 45 mins. BQ Coding 1: string run-length decoding. For example, a5b3c -> aaaaabbbc Coding 2: count the nodes in a chain. Each node can only access the node to its left and the node to its right, and you have to count how many nodes there are in total. Both problems needed test cases. Summary: the coding questions were very…

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