Technical Screen

Minesweeper and a Non-Thread-Safe Video Player in One 90-Minute Round

NuroSoftware Engineer · Intern · Technical Screen · Aug 2026

We interviewed together on: Coding Algorithm + Coding System, 1 hour 30 minutes total. Coding Algorithm: a Minesweeper problem. The interviewer split it into Part 1 and Part 2. Part 1: without clicking any cell, output the board after revealing it — mainly testing whether you know what number to output for cells next to a mine. Part 2: DFS. On Part 2 I got stuck because I didn't fully clarify the…

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