Technical Screen

Load Factor, Reachability, and Explaining the Approach

RobinhoodSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Sep 2026

The coding question was the classic load factor problem and was essentially the standard version. At the beginning, I asked whether I could assume that every node was reachable. The interviewer said yes, so I implemented the solution under that assumption. When I finished, it passed three of the four tests. I then started adding an explicit reachability check. My main advice from this interview i…

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