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General questions about data structures and networking like: - What's a hash table? Big O? Advantages of a hash table over an array? - Described to me what happens when I want to browse to google.com - How can you find the cycle in a linked list? - Write a function to solve a polynomial using any type you want - Write a function to handle the flow of events, they draw a state machine on a whiteboard (it represents the flow of events) and give you details about the custom types you have access to.
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Senior Backend Engineer

Interviewed at Taplytics

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Jun 27, 2019

General questions about data structures and networking like: - What's a hash table? Big O? Advantages of a hash table over an array? - Described to me what happens when I want to browse to google.com - How can you find the cycle in a linked list? - Write a function to solve a polynomial using any type you want - Write a function to handle the flow of events, they draw a state machine on a whiteboard (it represents the flow of events) and give you details about the custom types you have access to.

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