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A Group Anagrams Twist and a Write-vs-Read Tradeoff Question

CoupangSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026

Team: Marketplace Growth, the US team (people in the group said the whole org is about 100 people — 50–60 in Korea, 30–40 in China, and only this one team in the US, around 10 people; the org head is based in the US). Process: one phone screen (57 min) → onsite, same team. Phone screen structure: ~35 min coding → ~13 min project Q&A → ~10 min reverse questions. Coding (HackerRank) Question: a var…

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