Anyscale technical phone screen interview

Round 3 of 5 · 3 questions reported

Format: One coding problem, live
Heads-up: Reported 2024 to 2026: text justification (several times), and a durable key-value store that appends each write to a file as JSON before acknowledging it, with tests run live. Interviewers may ask whether you have used Ray.

Questions Anyscale asks in this round 3

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Text justification: fully justify words to a fixed line widthCodingLockedLay out a list of words as fully justified lines of exactly width characters, the way a word processor justifies a paragraph. Fill each line greedily with as many words as fit…
Last asked Aug 2026
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Crash-safe on-disk key-value storeCodingLockedBuild a key-value store that keeps its data in files on the local disk and survives a crash at any moment: after a restart it must come back with every write it acknowledged, and…
Possibly retired
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Redundant connection in a directed graphCodingLockedA rooted tree on nodes 1..n had exactly one extra directed edge added. You get the resulting n edges as [parent, child] pairs.
Last asked Aug 2026