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The two interviews were a technical interview and a system design interview. The technical interview has a deliberately badly written react/nextjs program. Just study up on how to differentiate between client and server code (they have 'use client') at the top of the main code, and what useTransition is. The system design interview asks you to design a simple system for a common business that only has a few hundred customers.
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Interviewed at NerdWallet

3.5★
Jun 14, 2025

The two interviews were a technical interview and a system design interview. The technical interview has a deliberately badly written react/nextjs program. Just study up on how to differentiate between client and server code (they have 'use client') at the top of the main code, and what useTransition is. The system design interview asks you to design a simple system for a common business that only has a few hundred customers.

Gusto has a payroll to distribute. Given the amount of current funds to distribute and a hash table of recipients your task is to calculate the even distribution of the funds. No need for an OOP solution, just code a function to do it, Note: Order of distribution does not matter. amount - total funds to distribute recipients - {recipient: money owed} Examples. amount = 40 recipients = {a: 10, b: 5, c: 10, d: 8} output = {a: 10, b: 5, c: 10, d: 8} amount = 30 recipients = {a: 10, b: 5, c: 10, d: 8} output = {a: 9, b: 5, c: 9, d: 7} or output = {a: 9, b: 4, c: 9, d: 8} amount = 20 recipients = {a: 10, b: 5, c: 10, d: 8} output = {a: 5, b: 5, c: 5, d: 5} amount = 10 recipients = {a: 10, b: 5, c: 10, d: 8} output = {a: 2, b: 2, c: 3, d: 3}
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Interviewed at Gusto

3.1★
Jul 12, 2025

Gusto has a payroll to distribute. Given the amount of current funds to distribute and a hash table of recipients your task is to calculate the even distribution of the funds. No need for an OOP solution, just code a function to do it, Note: Order of distribution does not matter. amount - total funds to distribute recipients - {recipient: money owed} Examples. amount = 40 recipients = {a: 10, b: 5, c: 10, d: 8} output = {a: 10, b: 5, c: 10, d: 8} amount = 30 recipients = {a: 10, b: 5, c: 10, d: 8} output = {a: 9, b: 5, c: 9, d: 7} or output = {a: 9, b: 4, c: 9, d: 8} amount = 20 recipients = {a: 10, b: 5, c: 10, d: 8} output = {a: 5, b: 5, c: 5, d: 5} amount = 10 recipients = {a: 10, b: 5, c: 10, d: 8} output = {a: 2, b: 2, c: 3, d: 3}

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