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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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- Failed a Multi-Round Instant-Runoff Voting QuestionCoursera · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Feb 2026Rejected
The question was roughly this: given a set of ballots, where each ballot is a candidate preference ranking, like [A, B, C, D] or [B, A, C, D], representing a voter's priority order over the candidates. Part one was actually pretty direct — just look at the first candidate on each ballot and count who appears most often. If there's a tie, pick the smallest one in lexicographic order. This part was…