Reddit·Software Engineer

Reddit Software Engineer interview experience

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My assessment kicked off with a little small talk, then moved quickly into a technical problem built around processing forum administrator logs.

The input was a long string of log entries describing actions administrators took, and the task was to implement two methods: one that produced an ordered list of administrators based on their last addition time, and another that determined whether one administrator could delete another depending on who was added first.

The way it was framed made it feel like I was essentially building a mini log parser and then applying ordering and comparison logic on top of it. There were follow-ups that pushed me to think about scalability—especially how I’d optimize the approach if the log length went

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