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3935 interview stories from candidates at 857 companies: how each round went, what was asked and how it ended. Every company page links to practice questions in the same style.
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- A Group Anagrams Twist and a Write-vs-Read Tradeoff QuestionCoupang · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026
Team: Marketplace Growth, the US team (people in the group said the whole org is about 100 people — 50–60 in Korea, 30–40 in China, and only this one team in the US, around 10 people; the org head is based in the US). Process: one phone screen (57 min) → onsite, same team. Phone screen structure: ~35 min coding → ~13 min project Q&A → ~10 min reverse questions. Coding (HackerRank) Question: a var…
- Live-Coded LeetCode 934, Debugged a Stack Overflow MyselfCoupang · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Sep 2025
Problem LeetCode 934, Shortest Bridge When I answered, I first laid out all his examples in a structured way below, then started with the function just returning 0. Running it gave n zeros, and I told him this was the first iteration. The next step was to finish the function so it returns the correct result. While working through it, I ran into a case where the recursion wasn't controlled properl…
