Summary

• Type: Online Coding Assessment on HackerRank
• Date: February 2020
• Position: Software Engineer
• Location: San Francisco Bay Area
• Number of Questions: 2
• Time: 90 minutes
• Company: WePay (A subsidary of JP Morgan)

Comments

• Received an invitation from WeyPay for a coding challenge.

• Before answering, it seems to me that the invitation is going to end up with an "automated rejection letter", "already decision made", or "sorry your coding is very strong, it is not you it's us!" or "sorry your coding is perfect we are looking for a little bit less perfect coders" or any other similar reasons. To check that, I replied to the invitation email with a small question before solving the challenge and there were "no responses".

• Logged into the HackerRank anyway since I had some free time and I thought I can at least post the questions here on LeetCode. There were two pretty interesting LeetCode questions. My typing is fast, so I answered both: the first easy one with two methods, one of which was a one-liner, the second one using Alex Wice's heqpq method. In the second one (Sliding Puzzle), one of the edge cases was not passing only.

• Added very detailed Time/Memory Complexities info, wrote docstrings, added type hinting and such (in Python3), and submitted my answers.

• Got rejected with a "template email", as expected, because first I was not really a good fit for the position, and second there were no prior communications whatsoever from HR, Hiring Manger, etc., but I liked the experience though.