Faire·Software Engineer

Faire Software Engineer interview experience

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Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The first thing I did was a technical phone interview that immediately set the tone: it was about string manipulation and a syllable-count logic.

I was asked to find a haiku within a given input—three segments with syllable counts of 5, 7, and 5. I used a brute-force approach to generate candidate substrings and then checked whether the segments matched the 5-7-5 structure. I could get it to run tests successfully, but I didn’t have time during the interview to optimize the solution.

That same haiku-style theme showed up again later in another round where the task was to locate the first haiku substring in a string using a provided syllable map. That version required paying attention to practical details like punctuation and case

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