I applied through university. I interviewed at Cohesity (Bengaluru) in Dec 2023
Interview
They asked a hard leet code question on graph.
My panel asked a hard question
But for other panels questions are rather easy and are on array string topics overall interview is medium to hard fore me.
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cohesity (San Jose, CA) in Apr 2023
Interview
1. Online assessment on Code Signal - Easy questions 2. 30 min Hr Call 3. After the HR call i got scheduled with two 60 min LeetCode style coding round.
Online Test.
Scenario
You are part of the Spam Prevention Team for a microblogging service. You noticed that many accounts only retweet other tweets, instead of creating original content. These accounts usually belong to spammers, and your task is to build a program that detects them.
You have access to platform's activity log (available at /home/candidate/candidate_files/java/inputs). The structure of the activity log is described in /home/candidate/candidate_files/java/log_structure.txt.
We consider a user to be a spammer if he satisfies all the following criteria:
The user has no original tweets.
The user has at least one retweet.
All the retweets of this user occur within 1000 milliseconds of the original tweet.
Task
Write the function identify_spammers that accepts the absolute path of the activity logfile, and returns a list of all the spammer usernames. For example,
[
"pkoch",
"MagnusCarlsen",
...
]