Online Assessment

Three OA Questions, Stuck on a Grid-Search Timeout

UpstartSoftware Engineer · Online Assessment · Apr 2026

There were three questions in total, and two of them hadn't shown up in any interview reports before. Given a list of coordinates (x, y), find the min x, min y, max_x - min_x, and max_y - min_y. The problem statement was basically: filter out (name, score) pairs where the score is above a threshold, keep everything below the threshold, then find the max score among what's left and return its name…

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