GEICO Software Engineer interview experience

I did several virtual coding interviews where the setup felt like a coding pad environment, and I could use whatever programming language I wanted. The questions weren’t described as wildly difficult, and I didn’t have the sense that they were trying to trip me up.

One of the coding tasks stuck with me: I was given a scan badge log represented as a list of lists of strings, and I had to identify employees who exited before they entered based on their logs. I started with an approach that involved counting with +1/-1 logic, but it didn’t cleanly handle everything. When hints came in, I