u/plussizeandproud wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
hey michael, for Meta coding rounds are you expected to produce bug free code in the first pass? What if your interviewer rushes to the next question without giving you time to fix your bugs? Is the approach sufficient to clear the bar if you identify the time and space complexit
u/michaelnovati replied ·
Definitely not, sometimes having too perfect code is suspicious even haha.
But by the end you want "clean code", which is both bug free and just elegant.
RE: space/time complexity - you need to not just answer the question, but explain why in plain words and walk through it... they ultimately want to know you deeply understand the code, and not if you memorized various complexiities.