This Guy Just Passed The Screening Round

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This Guy Just Passed The Screening Round

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Dinner with the girlfriend's dad turned into an impromptu technical interview? Classic tech industry courtship ritual!

Nothing says "welcome to the family" like getting grilled on array optimization over appetizers. Poor guy thought he was there for mashed potatoes but got served a medium LeetCode instead.

The best part is him mentally preparing for system design questions at Christmas. Forget bringing wine—better brush up on microservices architecture and load balancing strategies!

That final line though... "Girl is Asian. I'm not." Suddenly the stakes are higher than his O(n) solution. Next visit he'll probably need to whiteboard a red-black tree implementation while carving the turkey.

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