**Status:** 4 YOE, Business Degree from State College\n**Current Position:** SDE 1 \n**Applied Position:** Generalist E4\n**Date:** Aug-Sep 2019\n\n**Technical phone screen**:\n* [Longest Substring With K Distinct Chars](https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/358505/)\n\n**Onsite**\n\n**Round 1: [Coding]**\n* Easier version of https://leetcode.com/problems/string-to-integer-atoi/\n* What is the complexity of finding the max value of an element in an array? Big O, Big Theta, Big Omega \n\n**Round 2: [System Design]**\n* Design a live reload feature for Instagram comments (new comments appear instantly)\n\n**Lunch break with employee**\n\n**Round 3: [Coding]**\n* https://leetcode.com/problems/monotonic-array/\n* Find the contiguous subarray sum equal to K. Variation of https://leetcode.com/problems/subarray-sum-equals-k/\n\n**Round 4: [Behavioral]**\n* Behavioral questions like greatest technical challenge, interpersonal challenge, etc\n* https://leetcode.com/problems/palindrome-pairs/\n\n**Round 5: [Coding]**\n* https://leetcode.com/problems/boundary-of-binary-tree/\n* https://leetcode.com/problems/number-of-islands/ (diagonal movements allowed). Went into indepth discussion of iterative vs recursive solution, and optimizing recursive calls (bounds checking before recursing).\n\n**Round 6: [Coding]**\n* https://leetcode.com/problems/add-two-numbers-ii/ Could be negative numbers ex ["-","1","3"]\n* Subtract two numbers. Same as above but subtracting the two numbers instead of adding.\n\nOverall, I really enjoyed the interview experience. I found some flaws in my logic that i\'ll be focusing on getting stronger while working.

Status: 4 YOE, Business Degree from State College\nCurrent Position: SDE 1 \nApplied Position: Generalist E4\nDate: Aug-Sep 2019\n\nTechnical phone screen:\n Lo