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User-8iehoJul 11, 2026

Squarepoint round 1 rejection, decorators got me

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priyashah94Jul 11, 2026

Damn, did they say anything about which part of the decorators question tripped you up? Trying to gauge how deep they go on that round.

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User-zgh69Jul 11, 2026

From what I've heard it's usually the closure scoping part that trips people up, not the basic wrap and preserve args syntax.

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User-70pj8Jul 11, 2026

The OA second question wrecked me too, spent way too long trying to brute force before switching to binary search. Felt like a trap if you don't spot the monotonic property early.

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User-epbn5Jul 11, 2026

Same, I got both right but it ate almost 40 of my 75 minutes. Barely had time left for the stats section.

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User-ny8lcJul 11, 2026

Sucks about the outcome but at least you cleared the OA fully, that bar alone weeds out a lot of people.

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blakeJul 11, 2026

How much time did they give you for the KV store part, live coding always stresses me out more than take homes.

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noahdavis02Jul 11, 2026

In my round it was about 25 minutes for a basic version then follow ups on TTL expiry if you finished early.

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