Hulu Software Engineer interview experience

At the start, I had to explain what the first snippet did. It involved a recursive function to determine whether two strings were anagrams, but the implementation was intentionally tangled—like the recursion was being called inside a loop—so I had to slow down and clearly describe what it was doing before improving it.

Then I was asked to write a better version of the same logic, and I did it in a straightforward way in Java. The second snippet was longer and started with simple class definitions, followed by a function that read values, created objects, and built parent-child relationships