IMC SDE internship video interview

Title. Any insight or advice would be so helpful, thanks !

It’s 3 behavioral and 6 technical, you get 15seconds-1 min to prepare for each one.
Behavioral:

  • Qualities of work environment that are important to you
  • Give me a time when you had to adapt your personal style to suite a group or situation.
  • What feedback have you gotten in the past that you’re actively trying to work on?

Technical - agree/disagree:

  • it’s always possible to replace a recursive implementation of an algo with an iterative one
  • if 2 hashcodes for keys in a hashmap are equal, the keys have to be equal
  • A signed 32-bit integer and an unsigned 32-bit integer cannot express the same number of distinct values
  • An O(n^2) implementation of an algo can complete before an O(n) implementation of the same algo

Final technical:

  • describe a hashmap in a way a non-technical person could understand t

Sorry, I didn’t get to record the final question.

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This is way more info than I expected to get, I really appreciate it thank you