Coinbase IC4

I recently appeared for Coinbase Interviews and wanted to share my experience.

OA: Leetcode easy/medium questions. I don't remeber the questions correctly but they were straightforward with each part building on the previous. The focus is on speed you should get atleast 3 out of the 4 as all correct. Writin clean code helps as each part is a continuation.

Coding Round 1: The question was related to iterators. You can find the different type of questions under the company tag. I thought I had done well in this round, but i didn't write code for edge case scenarios in the first go and earlier on I think I overcomplicated things that was enough for a reject.

Verdict: No. I think this was harsh but maybe since the questions are easy they expect perfect code in the first attempt.

Coding Round 2: I don't remember the exact question but it was related to given a set of features for NFT's for ex {"eyes": blue,green,yellow} , {"hair": black, brown, blue} . Combining this features to form unique NFT's. The further parts just built upon this with uniqueness constraints and having only limited NFT's with a given feature. Was straightforward and the round went well

Verdirct: Yes (Not sure if strong hire or hire)

Manager Round: 1 hour technical discussion on past projects, I don't think I did a good job explaining here and stumbled when asked about various alternatives I had considered. It was an average round didn't go as well as expected. Prepare to go in great depths about the project you're discussing as that's the expectation here.

Verdict: Reject

Overall the interviewers were nice and the recruiters helpful. I feel the grading scale was harsh for no good reason but I guess that's their methodology.