Watch a Candidate pass a VR Mock Coding Interview
This candidate passed the interview because of their ability to work through the problem. There may have been a few hiccups but nothing that would sink the interview.
Watch HERE and below review
What they did well
- Wrote out the input, output and example
- asked intelligent questions
- Thinking Greedy to start, challenges his own thinking and gets to the crux of the problem
- identified the greedy approach, and challenged his assumptions and showed that he couldn't prove it
- Feels like a conversation,
- Very good communicator
- Knew every individual coin was a base case
- Writes great psuedo code
- Great inspection, Good strategy, coding section
- Index selection optimization
- Caught his mistake and added 1 after being prodded
What could be better
- diagram isn’t clear how he is progressing through the problem
- started to fall apart when pushed on the runtime
- Realized the history of the coins didn’t matter after being prodded
- Got a little lost when he was strategized the coin change solution. Tied up in managing the index
- Didn’t know to reference the call stack when asked about top down vs bottom up
- Kept switching between top down and bottom up without bringing the interviewer along
- Psuedo code , didn’t really have time to code
- No need to do binary search on the coin, a premature optimzation
- First iteration of code wasn’t functional
- Had issues defining the output runtime never asked about the size of the coins
- Didn’t review his code too thoroughly
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