ethanliuAug 8, 2026
HRT phone screen, straight C++ trivia no coding
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C++ internals get rusty fast if you're not writing it daily, rough one to prep for on short notice.
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No LC list for this track, seems like it's just knowing the language cold or nothing.
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Did you actually land on a working O(1) deque answer or just talk around it? Curious what the right structure even is.
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Never actually landed on it honestly, kept coming back to linked list which doesn't cut it. Still not sure what the clean answer is tbh.
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Had a similar core dev screen a while back, no coding at all just straight trivia. Caught me off guard too since I prepped LC for nothing.
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So zero coding the whole call? That's wild for a technical screen.
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Yeah zero, just talking through concepts and design out loud. Wish I'd known going in.
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