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75-Minute Malloc Screen, CoderPad Crashed, Advanced Anyway

OpenAISoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026

There's not much to say about the question itself — it's just malloc. But the interview process wasn't quite what I imagined, so I'm sharing it for everyone's reference. The interviewer's background looked very, very strong. After reading the question, I went with the standard interview-report format and started with first-fit. The interviewer pressed for a ton of detail — what data structure to…

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