You are on the phone with one to two developers while logged into the HackerRank site. There, they will set up two to three code scripting questions that you must complete and compile successfully based on the test cases. While doing so, you must describe how you arrived at the logic for your answer. If you have testing anxiety, this is not a format you can automatically succeed with as a stratagem. The interviewers range from polite and courteous to disinterested, condescending, and curt.

I developed the insight that no matter how much money they paid you, the culture is sink or swim. This was especially evident when I asked if a team player culture was encouraged. The answer I received was, "People are given the resources they can handle." It was curt, cut off, and unfriendly.

There are no team players here for this salary, which mathematically equates to a high probability of turnover and a high workload. This is why they have many openings at any given time.

Even then, if you pass, you are invited on-site for four hours to meet personnel. You will be tested again in front of a whiteboard twice more before you might meet HR at the end for a potential job offer. That is essentially and potentially three tech screens for one job. Maybe for you, that is fine. But for me, that is nonsense.

You should, if done right, only have to test and tech screen once to show your value.

I was given a substring calculator class and asked to add code that would read through the input and generate a specific output. The input was ASCII characters.