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Temu Phone Screens with Spiral Matrix and Sliding Window, Rejected

PinduoduoSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026

Sharing my Temu interview experience. First phone screen round (coding): The problem was printing a 2D matrix in spiral order. Part one: given an m x n matrix, print all the values in a spiral (clockwise, from the outside in). Follow-up: the matrix has blockers, and whenever you hit a blocker you turn clockwise (turn right). What is the output order? Second round: Coding problem: given a string,…

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