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Overall: 3/5
Breakdown
- Coding - 4
- Communication - 4
- Problem Solving - 2
- Inspection - 2
- Review - 3
What they did well
- Started asking clarifying questions
- Wrote out his inputs
- Asked clarifying questions about K
- Wrote out an example
- Had good intuition around using K to only look at sub arrays
- Thoughts all made sense and was easy to follow along
- Able to get to a runtime of O(NK)
- Able to confidently speak about his code
- Able to intelligently code
- Worked through your example, you can do this more explicitly
- Questions were good.
What could be better
- Missed the nearly sorted requirement
- Asks am I on the right track?
- Didn’t mention a simple brute force solution
- Got quite when thinking through solutions
- Needed a hint to get to thinking about it correctly
- Hint: Needed a hint to think about what would go in the first position
- Didnt register the hint well
- Quietly thinking
- Spending too much time on thinking
- Had issue identifying that he needed the min even after hint
- “do you want me to code it” without defining runtime, without defining space and
- Never mentioned space time
- Specifed an incorrect runtime, multiply times, First said N, then said N^2. Lack of confidence when speaking about runtime.
- DIdnt know the runtime of mergesort
- Frustrated gasp (Never do this)
- Hint: How can you quickly find the smallest element of the subset
- Wasn’t grasping a heap, or the ideas around it
- Got quiet when coding
- Keep getting quiet even when asking
- Got lost in his own code for a few seconds
- No way I could read the code
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