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URL Maze BFS Problem, Rejected Over a Debugging Miss

RampSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Apr 2026

The question was the "URL maze, find the exit" problem that's already known on this forum. Right from the start we were just talking through it, testing the URL, then I wrote the program, and finally wrote a BFS solution that passed. The follow-up: they swapped in a different URL and had me run my Part 1 solution against it, and this time it didn't pass — I needed to handle status codes like 503…

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