A tree question that's secretly a format-design question, which is why FDE loops love it. The preorder-with-null-markers trick is clean, but the delimiter and malformed-input follow-ups are where offers are decided.
Updated Aug 2026 · Grounded in real Forward Deployed Engineer interview loops and written to a senior-engineer editorial bar.
A tree question that's secretly a format-design question, which is why FDE loops love it. The preorder-with-null-markers trick is clean, but the delimiter and malformed-input follow-ups are where offers are decided.
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