Interview Experiences & Insights
I struggled with the longest prefix match coding problem in the second round and was unable to solve it, resulting in an unsuccessful interview.
I interviewed for a Software Staff Engineer (SSE) role at Forward Networks. During the first Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) round, I was asked a string searching problem similar to 'Find the Index of the First Occurrence in a String'. Although I initially struggled with the optimal algorithms like LPS or rolling hash, the interviewer provided guidance, and I was able to write the code.
