Tech Phone Screen at hims & hers: Software Engineer Fulltime Role

hims & hers | Software Engineer | Phone Screen

Timeline: 2025(Oct - Dec) • Fulltime • JobHopper • :hourglass_not_done: Waiting for result


Candidate shares their experience solving grid island problems with DFS in a bytedance software engineer video interview, including handling rotated and flipped islands.

Interview Questions

Grid Island Problem

Find the number of islands in a given 2D grid where ‘1’ represents land and ‘0’ represents water.

Difficulty: Medium | Reference: LC-200 | Tags: DFS

Fibonacci Tree Path Calculation Using Preorder Numbering

Calculate the path from root to leaf in a Fibonacci tree using preorder numbering.

Difficulty: Medium | Reference: LC-1234 | Tags: Tree, DFS

Tree Distance Sum Problem

Find the sum of distances between all nodes in a tree.

Difficulty: Hard | Reference: LC-234 | Tags: Graph, DFS