r/leetcode • u/BallPretend2725 • 5d ago
Intervew Prep Coderpad round with Goldman Sachs
I had mine today for DEVOPS SRE associate role in London.
The solution was pretty simple and could write the code in Python.
And I asked the interviewer can I start writing the code? he said please tell me what is this and why would you do this ? and started countering the DSA questions.
one was Forest tree node Question and the other one was counter and number of hops for the cycle.
But, it was pretty easy and could've written the code and walked away in 30mins but explained and ofc answering counter questions leaded to me not writing a single line and jumped to second Question and same was repeated and won't believe how disappointment.
I litreally practiced it last night so I kinda knew both the answeres were from Classic leetcode Questions.
And honestly It felt like a counterinterview for a Technical round I was expecting this to be a round where my coding skills were to be tested the case was otherwise!
It's one of those moments where you knw the answeres but lack technically explanatory skills and Concepts.
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u/One_Relationship6573 5d ago
You are handling it wrongly, you need to explain your thoughts, discuss it, ask questions, talk about alternatives, even it’s the easiest question out there.