noahdavis0311Aug 16, 2026
HRT phone screen, straight C++ trivia instead of LC
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wait so it was full on C++ systems trivia for the phone screen? no coding at all?
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yeah literally zero coding, just inline vs macros, hashmap internals, stuff like that back to back
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damn that sucks, sorry man. seems like the bar is rough even before you get to the actual coding stuff
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I got basically the same thing for the core dev track, felt like a cs fundamentals final more than an interview
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did they ask you about stack growth direction too? that one threw me off when I went through it
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were you going for the SWE track or algo dev? curious if the format changes depending on which one you apply for
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