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Missed the OA's Iterative-DFS Trick But Still Advanced

UberSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Apr 2026

Today's technical screen: 5-minute self-introduction, then 20 minutes of coding: Given a 2D grid with empty cells, robots, obstacles, and a target like [1, 1, 2, 2] — this represents each robot's distance to the nearest obstacle in the up, left, down, right directions respectively, indexed accordingly. Output a list of robot locations that fit this criteria. Then a 30-minute deep dive on one of m…

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