Bazaarvoice Software Engineer interview experience

One prompt asked me to print a binary tree in a snake-like traversal pattern, and another asked how I’d replace a manual five-category labeling process for reviews with something more scalable. I also had a more mathy counting question about how many zeros show up in decimal representations across numbers up to a given n, and then I was pulled into discussion about CAP—specifically what I would be willing to compromise.

The onsite experience that followed included a long stretch of mostly technical problem solving, with engineers running 1:1s for exercises on a whiteboard. The interviews