How Firebase Interviewed Software Engineers

Re:How Firebase Interviewed Software Engineers by mayop100 on Thursday September 26, 2019 @03:42PM (#21084705)

That's a different problem than the one we used. We added some additional complexity that required a search of the entire solution space to get a provably optimal answer, and then we made the maps & allowed # of moves large enough that brute force was impossible. So people had to build sub-optimal search solutions that pruned in intelligent ways.

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Re:How Firebase Interviewed Software Engineers by estomagordo on Friday September 27, 2019 @03:22AM (#21089325)

Is the problem (statement, input and hopefully leaderboard) available online somewhere?

I figure it hasn't been used for recruiting in a long time, so there shouldn't be any downside of that nature to it being so. But there is the invested time in making it available, of course.

I hardly think I would be the only one thriled to try it just for fun. It would probably provide a great deal of goodwill for you guys, as well as further the industry's understanding of what constitutes a good take-home problem.

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Re:How Firebase Interviewed Software Engineers by ScottBurson on Thursday September 26, 2019 @04:07PM (#21084948)

Did anyone use a SAT solver?

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