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Phone Screen on Service Dependency Cycle Detection
Interviewed: Dec 2025
Interview Questions (Locked)
Question 1
OpenAI two rounds of Android Phone Screen
Interviewed: Dec 2025
Interview Questions (Locked)
Question 1
Question 2
OpenAI Applied Engineer Phone Screen
Interviewed: Dec 2025
OpenAI phone screen for Applied Engineering. The bar is honestly very high. The coding part went pretty well, and the interviewer seemed satisfied.
Interview Questions (Locked)
Question 1
Question 2
Palantir Onsite System Design
Interviewed: Dec 2025
Interview Questions
Question 1
Design a multi-tenant data analysis platform
Question 2
Have you ever made a decision that was “politically incorrect but technically correct”?
Question 3
If the company’s direction conflicts with your personal values, what would you do?
Question 4
Have you ever refused a decision made by your manager?
90-Minute OA: Jump Game Variant and Palindrome Paths in Tree
Interviewed: Nov 2025
This was a 90-minute Hackerrank OA with 2 questions, and the setup required video and full-screen sharing.
Interview Questions (Locked)
Question 1
Question 2
Phone Screen on Different Hats DP
Interviewed: Nov 2025
Interview Questions (Locked)
Question 1
OA: Jump Game Variant and Exploration Game Score
Interviewed: Nov 2025
Interview Questions (Locked)
Question 1
Question 2
Onsite Loop focused on Jump Game Variant
Interviewed: Nov 2025
Interview Questions (Locked)
Question 1
Phone Screen on Leftmost Column with a One
Interviewed: Nov 2025
Interview Questions (Locked)
Question 1
Phone Screen on Parking Lot OOD
Interviewed: Nov 2025
The first half of the phone screen was behavioral, and the second half was an OOD round.
Interview Questions (Locked)
Question 1
Phone Screen on Longest Stable Subarray
Interviewed: Nov 2025
Interview Questions (Locked)
Question 1
Onsite Loop with Number of Islands I and II, Hit Counter Design, and Uber Eats Search
Interviewed: Nov 2025
My onsite included two coding rounds, one system design round, and one behavioral round.
Interview Questions (Locked)
Question 1
Question 2
Question 3