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Shiva Bhusal
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Before Toptal Live Coding Interview

Overview

It will take approximately 1 hour. It looks like

  • Introduction & Rules
  • Entering your personal and professional details like
    • Your experience for each tech like ruby, js, front-end, backend
    • Location,
    • Your recent projects & most exciting thing about them kinda stuff
  • Making sure you(yourself) completed the last coding-challenge.
    • they will ask you about the problems
    • what you needed to do
    • how you approached
  • 2 Algo-problems
    • You will get as much time you need to understand the problem. You can ask the interviewer.
    • timer starts only when you say you understood.
    • You don't have to explain the solution while you solve.
    • if you are about to finish 1st in 15 mins then you will be given the 2nd problem.
    • you have to share the entire screen, not just a window
    • you can google language syntax but not the algo-solution

Preparation Guide

  • Problems will not be hard because you only have 15 mins
  • Read & practice lessons from HackerRank, Codility, Project Euler
  • Take enough time to understand the problem
  • do brainstorming on paper if you feel so
  • keep calm, they will normally add extra 2 mins

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Anwar Sadat Ayub

Very informative