Ran out of time on Perplexity's ToDo list problem

noahdavisSep 25, 2026

Same thing happened to me on the ToDo list problem, part 2 just eats all your time if you're not fast with the graph traversal.

User-2bcouSep 25, 2026

Yeah the dependency cascade part is brutal under time pressure, I only got through half of it.

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priyashah94Sep 25, 2026

Did you get to try the infra round? Curious how bad the k8s stuff actually is.

davidkimSep 25, 2026

Yeah I did, wasn't as bad as I expected honestly, more about naming metrics than actual k8s trivia.

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chloe.chenSep 25, 2026

Python requirement really does filter people out, I know a couple folks who bombed just because of that.

ryanzhang0815Sep 25, 2026

Rip, hope the next one goes better for you.

User-9l4zjSep 25, 2026

When did you get asked this? Just curious because I know they released this question publicly https://interviewresources.perplexity.ai/hands-on-coding/examples/todo-list/