Status: 2-3 years expierence, BS in CS\nPosition: Software Engineering, Product\nLocation: Bay Area, CA\nDate: Early December 2024\n\nApplied in August 2024\nRecruiter reached out to me early November 2024 to explain interview process and suggested I study up for at least a few weeks before the tech screening.\n\nTech Screening (45min) - PASSED!\nInterviewer was a little late, but super apologetic. We did intros, and then got to business. \nQ1 - 339. Nested List Weight Sum\nQ2 - 314. Binary Tree Vertical Traversal\n\nThese two qs were basically what I was asked. I think I was pretty lucky with two easyish questions that I was able to complete in roughly 30mins and a nice interviewer. \nSomething I would note is, I wasn\'t given a structured input to run. All I was given was a description and examples of inputs and respective returns. \nThis means that for example, with the binary tree question, I wasn\'t provided a "TreeNode" class with a preformatted input to run.\nI feel fairly comfortable writing those classes on the fly, but it was a tad stressful. Looking back, maybe I should have taken in an array instead of mucking around as it was hard to write out the input using my TreeNode class for a larger input (meaning roughly 4 levels and 10 nodes) and find my mistake, but luckily I didn\'t panic, and took my time to find the error in my input, and was able to catch it fairly quick.\nI was also asked about runtime and memory for both qs, as well as some follow up qs to reduce memory/runtime. \nTook me a sec to think through the follow ups for the second q, but with a nudge from the interviewer I was able to figure out a way to do it.\n\nOverall, I would recommend going through all the Meta qs, **and** writing out solutions and testing it outside of the leetcode evironment. I did this with the Cracking the Coding Interview qs, and I am so thankful I did, otherwise it would have been a lot more stressful.\n\nTook roughly 1 week to hear back, but I\'m moving on to the final loop!\nThat will consist of:\n2 separate coding rounds (most likely 2 qs each)\n1 product design arch\n1 behavioral\n\nMy recruiter told me to make sure I can do ~2 medium leetcode qs within 30mins even though I\'ll have 45mins.\n\nI\'m nervous but optimistic. I\'m going to keep grinding away at the leets, while practicing system/product design, and going over my past projects :)

Status: 2-3 years expierence, BS in CS\nPosition: Software Engineering, Product\nLocation: Bay Area, CA\nDate: Early December 2024\n\nApplied in August 2024\nRe