noahdavis98May 27, 2026

Snowflake offer

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Snowflake offer Result: Offer Number of Rounds: 4 Phone screen: cake distribution problem with multi-source BFS. Got it. VO: Coding 1: Tree traversal with deleted nodes. Needed to handle nodes that were logically removed but still present in the structure. Edge cases took a bit. Coding 2: Merge k sorted lists variant. Heap approach, standard. SD: Data pipeline for analytics ingestion. Covered partitioning strategy, storage format tradeoffs, and retry logic for partial failures. Offer came in abo...

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benhe4829May 27, 2026

The SD round covering retry logic and partial failures is a good sign. That's real infra thinking.

User-y9gasMay 27, 2026

Congrats. Did they give room to negotiate on TC?

noahdavis98May 27, 2026

Yes. RSU bumped up a bit. Base was firm.

ryanzhangMay 27, 2026

The cake distribution BFS is a classic there. Were they checking for the optimal time complexity or just any working solution?

noahdavis98May 27, 2026

Both. They wanted BFS specifically for the multi-source case and asked about why over DFS.

User-prp7nMay 27, 2026

What was the storage format discussion? Parquet vs Delta vs something else?

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