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Technical Round2026-08-13

Find the midpoint of a linked list using a single traversal.

AI-Expanded — inferred from the question title, not from the original candidate report

Given a singly linked list, find and return the middle node of the list using only a single pass through the data. If the list contains an even number of nodes, return the second of the two middle nodes.

Context & Summary

Interviewer assessed knowledge of C++ data types, their ranges, storage class specifiers, and differences between global and static keywords. Questions also covered recursion, real-time OS concepts (e.g., Round-robin scheduling), and a problem to find the midpoint of a linked list using a single traversal.

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