WePay (Chase Company) Software Engineer 1 @ Redwood City, CA

The following is the questions asked by WePay. Honestly amazing engineers, meh workplace.

Phone Screen:
https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-window-substring/

On Site:

Round 1:
https://leetcode.com/problems/word-ladder/

Round 2:
Create a type of queue like push/pop (FIFO) that has a function called Pops Max from the queue

  • push items: (1, 5, 4, 10, 1)
  • pop items => rets 1, queue is: 5, 4, 10, 1
  • popMax => rets 10, queue is: 5, 4, 1

Used Tree to keep track of smallest node in LgN and Double-linkedList for removing item form queue in O(1).

Optimize runtime of this function. Trivial answer is O(n), come up with something better.

Round 3:
https://leetcode.com/problems/text-justification/

Round 4:
System Design: Build an Air Traffic Control System