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Game of Snakes Remember the old phone game of snake? The snake can move up, down, left or right in a 2Dimensional board of arbitrary size. Lets try to pmplement the bae logic of this game Rules: • Every time moveSnake() is called, the snake moves up, down, left or right • The snake’s initial size is 3 and grows by 1 every 5 moves • The game ends when the snake hits itself We can use the following as a starting point (pseudo-code): Interface SnakeGame { moveSnake(snakeDirection); isGameOver(); } Proposed Changes Change#1 Make scale-up 2 optional Remove scale-up 2 completely Change#2 Add new optional scale up: snake grows when it eats food rather than every 5moves. Food is dropped at a random position on the board.
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Senior Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Atlassian

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Sep 7, 2025

Game of Snakes Remember the old phone game of snake? The snake can move up, down, left or right in a 2Dimensional board of arbitrary size. Lets try to pmplement the bae logic of this game Rules: • Every time moveSnake() is called, the snake moves up, down, left or right • The snake’s initial size is 3 and grows by 1 every 5 moves • The game ends when the snake hits itself We can use the following as a starting point (pseudo-code): Interface SnakeGame { moveSnake(snakeDirection); isGameOver(); } Proposed Changes Change#1 Make scale-up 2 optional Remove scale-up 2 completely Change#2 Add new optional scale up: snake grows when it eats food rather than every 5moves. Food is dropped at a random position on the board.

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