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← Thinking Machines Lab

Staff+ Frontend at Thinking Machines Lab

FrontendStaff+Rejected◆ Commonly asked· 2024

A staff frontend loop. Coding-heavy early, design and behavioral later.

The loop · 5 rounds

01

Round 01 · 3 questions

DSA / Coding

Data structures & algorithms on a whiteboard or shared editor.

  • Word search in a grid.
    Staff+Medium◆ Commonly asked
    #backtracking#grid
    PracticeLeetCode↗GeeksforGeeks↗
  • Maximum depth of a binary tree.
    Staff+Easy◆ Commonly asked
    #tree#dfs
    PracticeLeetCode↗GeeksforGeeks↗
  • House robber.
    Staff+Medium◆ Commonly asked
    #dp
    PracticeLeetCode↗GeeksforGeeks↗
02

Round 02 · 1 question

Low-Level Design

Object-oriented / low-level design of a focused module.

  • Design a keyboard-shortcut registry.
    Staff+Medium◆ Commonly asked
    #oop
    PracticeGeeksforGeeks↗Search↗
03

Round 03 · 2 questions

System Design

High-level architecture of a large-scale system.

  • Design a URL shortener like TinyURL.
    Staff+Medium◆ Commonly asked
    #hashing#cache#sharding
    PracticeGeeksforGeeks↗Search↗
  • Design a distributed cache.
    Staff+Hard◆ Commonly asked
    #cache#consistency
    PracticeGeeksforGeeks↗Search↗
04

Round 04 · 1 question

Hiring Manager

Scope, ownership, and role-fit discussion with the manager.

  • How do you measure the success of a project after launch?
    Staff+◆ Commonly asked
    #metrics
05

Round 05 · 2 questions

Behavioral / HR

Values, collaboration, and past-experience (STAR) questions.

  • Describe something you shipped that you were not proud of.
    Staff+◆ Commonly asked
    #tradeoffs#star
  • Describe a time you disagreed with a teammate. How did it resolve?
    Staff+◆ Commonly asked
    #conflict#star

Practice each round across every company

  • DSA / Coding
  • Low-Level Design
  • System Design
  • Hiring Manager
  • Behavioral / HR

◆ This experience is composed from commonly reported questions for this role and level. Real, individually-shared interviews will be layered in over time.