Return all files under a path

Company: Dropbox

Role: Software Engineer

Category: Coding & Algorithms

Difficulty: medium

Interview Round: Technical Screen

Overview: This question evaluates filesystem traversal and recursive/iterative algorithm skills, including handling different path types, edge cases such as missing or inaccessible paths, and robustness concerns like symlink cycles when enumerating files.

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