RejectedOnsite
Four Technical Problems, Told Not a Match
OpenAIMachine Learning Engineer · Onsite · Apr 2026
Question 1: 1NN This one's got a lot of write-ups already on the forum, so I won't go into detail here. Question 2: Infectious disease The first three parts were exactly the same as what's already on the forum. The fourth part: at any given moment, for a plant that isn't dead yet, if it has >=K infected neighbors, it enters a dead countdown (dies after D days); if it has >=T but
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