apple | Software Engineer | Interview Experience
Interview Date: Not specified
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Difficulty: Not specified
Interview Process
The interview started with questions related to the candidate’s published papers, which were relatively straightforward. The coding challenge involved providing a list of strings that were sorted and a prefix. The task was to find the first index of the string that starts with the given prefix. For example, given the list [a, an, ad, bd, ce] and the prefix “an”, the output should be 1; for the prefix “b”, the output should be 3. The algorithm required was binary search, and various corner cases needed to be considered.
Technical Questions
- Binary Search
Tips & Insights
The candidate should be prepared to discuss their research and be ready for coding challenges that require efficient algorithms and consideration of edge cases.