Katkat

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2 practice questions in the style of Merge's interviews, covering Software Engineering Fundamentals.

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Katkat has 2 Merge interview questions. The largest topics are Software Engineering Fundamentals (100%). By difficulty: 100% medium. The most common round is Technical Screen (100%).

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  • Medium100% · 2

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  • Technical Screen100% · 2

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  • Software Engineer100% · 2

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  • Design a Common Data Class to Normalize Different API ResponsesMedium

    Design a common data class that can hold API responses describing the same kind of record but differing in field names, nesting, ID types and timestamp formats, plus the code that maps each response into it. It tests data modeling, normalization, handling of missing and extra fields, and how the records would be stored in a database.

    MergeSoftware EngineerSoftware Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screen
  • Org Chart from a Reporting List: Count Orgs, Print by Level, Find a Common ManagerMedium

    Given a company's employees as (id, title, reports_to) tuples with heads reporting to None, count the separate orgs, print employees level by level, and find the first manager two employees share. It tests building a tree from manager pointers, level-order traversal, ancestor queries and edge cases under a tight time limit.

    MergeSoftware EngineerSoftware Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screen

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  • Data Class Design Then a 3-Level Org Chart Problem, RejectedMerge · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Oct 2026
    Rejected

    The questions were quite different from the earlier interview reports. The difficulty isn't high, but you need to write code fast. The interview was split into two parts. Part 1: I was first given a set of API return values and asked to design a common data class to store that data. This part took about 20-25 minutes, and they also asked a few simple questions about DB and system design. Part 2:…

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