This is why I think Senior Engineers aren't clearing interviews

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/leetcode/comments/xi1ioe/thoughts/

I want to cover a serious issue highlighted by a video posted by Gaurav Sen sometime back:

I want to show another point of view. What happens beyond the point Gaurav makes with a simple instance. I will take the leetcode problem of Wildcard Matching for this instance.

If you have never done this problem before, how would a Senior Engineer think of approaching it? Well, this is one way I would approach it:

class Solution:
    MATCH_TERMS = ("?", "*")

    def isMatch(self, s: str, p: str) -> bool:
        print(f"s={s} p={p}")
        s_len = len(s)
        match p:
            case "":
                return False
            case "*?":
                return self.match_all_single_char(s)
            case "?*":
                return self.match_single_char_all(s)
            case "*":
                return True
            case "?":
                return self.match_single_char(s)
            case single_char_pat if len(single_char_pat) == 1:
                return s_len == 1 and single_char_pat == s
            case p if p == s:
                return True…