Technical Screen

Game of Life Scaled to 1M x 1M in a Phone Screen

Applied IntuitionSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Oct 2026

The interviewer first demoed Conway's Game of Life in the browser (I had never heard of it before), then pasted starter code into CoderPad: next_gen computes the next generation of the board. There is a helper _process_cell(old_board, new_board, row, col) that decides whether a cell lives or dies based on its neighbor count. The initial board is random with a probability p between 0 and 1, so the…

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