Software Engineer · Phone Screen · Coding

Meta — Software Engineer ✅ Passed

Level: Senior-Level

Round: Phone Screen · Type: Coding · Difficulty: 6/10 · Duration: 60 min · Interviewer: Neutral

Topics: Arrays, Sorting, Greedy Algorithms

Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Interview date: 2025-12-15

Summary

I had a phone screen interview that involved two coding questions.

Details

I had a phone screen interview and was asked two questions:

1. Given an integer array and an integer k, return the k-th largest element in the array.
   • Example: array = [5, -3, 9, 1] k = 0 => return: 9 k = 1 => return: 5 k = 3 => return: -3
2. Given a calendar year represented as a char array that contains either H or W where: H = Holiday W = Workday Given a number of Personal Time-Off days (PTO), maximize the length of the longest vacation you can take. No rollovers.
   • Example: [W, H, H, W, W, H, W], PTO = 2 -> return 5