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Software Engineer Interview Experience
Interview process
Interviewer expects you to speak chinese and started off the interview doing so — had to ask for English. Messed up a little on my first pass of implementation, but fixed it quickly, finished 15 minutes early.
- Technical interview
Interview rounds
1 question across 1 roundTechnical interview
1 questionSpecific questions asked
Build an LRU cache with thread safety
Interview tips
Be fluent in Chinese or you won’t get it. You can google things just ask nicely, but be familiar with good coding practices
Company culture
First interviewer was so rude his phone kept going off, I thought about asking him to silence it but I figured it was part of the test so I just toughed it out.
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