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Round: Phone Screen · Type: Coding · Difficulty: 4/10 · Duration: 60 min · Interviewer: Unfriendly
Topics: Arrays, Hash Tables, Data Structures, Scalability
Location: Los Gatos, CA
Interview date: 2025-12-15
Got offer: False
I had a technical phone interview. The interviewer gave me an array of URLs, each corresponding to a text file containing user reviews and an optional URL pointing to the next file. I also received a dictionary of negative keywords. My task was to collect all negative reviews for each movie.
The question I got was:
Given a URL array, where each URL corresponds to a text file containing user reviews and an optional URL pointing to the next file, and given a negative keyword dictionary, collect all negative reviews for each movie.
During the interview, I couldn't recall the specific Python library for reading URLs and writing files. The interviewer said it was not a major concern and allowed me to look it up. I answered all the questions and received positive feedback, but I was ultimately rejected.