Technical Screen

A Debt-Settlement Variant of LC 465

PinterestSoftware Engineer · Senior+ · Technical Screen · Jan 2026

Position: SR. Software Engineer A one-hour phone screen, and the question was a variant of LC 465 — it felt like it needed the accounting concept of settling balances, and if you hadn't seen something like this before you probably couldn't have gotten it. The problem was roughly this: a group of friends goes on a trip, and you're given a list of transactions. Each one has a payer, an amount, and…

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