User-57ez75h ago

IBM OA that showed up 10 minutes after I applied

Hack2hire Community · 2026-09-30T15:00:00.368Z

IBM OA that showed up 10 minutes after I applied Applied on a Sunday night, HackerRank link was in my inbox before I closed the tab. Two questions, both easy. First was the VM stock one where you keep selling from whatever type has the most stock left and add that to revenue, max heap and done. Second was counting the minimum replacements per word so no two same chars sit next to each other, one pass over the runs. Took maybe 25 min total. Honestly the OA isn't the hard part, getting a human to...

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chloe.chen3h ago

which language did you use? I did the heap one in python with heapq and it was fine

User-fb2zw1h ago

python, heapq with negated counts. nothing fancy

rohanverma4h ago

Same here, got it within minutes of applying. Did both, 3 weeks of silence so far.

User-f1ac02h ago

I got a recruiter email like a month after mine so it's not always dead. took forever though

User-h3pzf1h ago

a month?? ok maybe there's hope lol