**TOE:** 7 months\n**Date:** 17th Jan, 2020\n\n----\n**Phone Interview**\nInterviewer was very specific about thinking out loud.\n1. https://leetcode.com/problems/valid-parentheses/ - was able to solve properly in 15 minutes\n2. A challenging problem you solved at work and how did you solve it? - I gave example of an issue when some malicious user has abused our backend service to create 50k+ requests to some space and how did we solve it.\n3. https://leetcode.com/problems/exam-room/ - took me a while to understand. Initially I gave brute force approach. Thought of using binary search, but it turned out to be a heaps data structure related problem. Got rejected since I couldn\'t solve this.

TOE: 7 months\nDate: 17th Jan, 2020\n\n----\nPhone Interview\nInterviewer was very specific about thinking out loud.\n1. https://leetcode.com/problems/valid-par