What should I do in the last 10 minutes of a machine coding interview?
Test the full flow end to end and fix bugs you find. A working submission with one missing feature beats a broken submission with all features attempted. Spend the final minutes ensuring what you built truly works.
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First 10 minutes reading and planning, next 15 setting up a skeleton, next 40 building the must-haves, next 15 polishing edge cases, and the last 10 testing and fixing. Prioritize a working subset over a broken superset.
Trying to build everything. Interviewers would rather see a working subset than a broken superset. Build the core must-haves first, get a working result, then add nice-to-haves only if time allows.
Yes, take the first 10 minutes to read carefully, identify must-haves, nice-to-haves, and skips, and sketch a component structure. Planning saves far more time than it costs, because you avoid building the wrong thing.
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