Pindrop·Software Engineer

Pindrop Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted May 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

A referral got me a phone call, and it started with the interviewer walking me through what the company was building before we moved into the technical part.

The coding round felt like a discussion more than a quiz: I was asked to work with a set of 2D points and find the nearest point to the origin. I immediately went for a brute-force approach, then the interviewer pushed me on how I’d improve the complexity.

The follow-up extended the problem to finding the k-th nearest point from the origin. The difficulty came from having to not only produce an approach, but also explain the performance thinking as I refined it. By the end, the experience left me feeling like the bar was fairly high for reasoning through complexity, and it didn’t turn into

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