I was approached by a recruitment agency through LinkedIn. They forwarded my resume to Bolt's recruitment team, who shortlisted it and asked to set up an interview date.

It was quite odd, as no one from Bolt's recruitment team called to explain the interview process, role, or expectations.

After the first interview, I had to follow up the following week to ask for the status. I finally received a response that they would like to proceed with the next round. I provided my availability, but didn't get any response back for weeks.

A few weeks after that, I received a response indicating they would like to schedule a new date. After the second interview, they decided not to move forward with my application, informing me more than a week later.

It took 1.5 months to conduct two interviews and provide the results.

1st Interview: It focused on algorithms and data structures, starting with LeetCode Easy problems and progressing to LeetCode Hard. I coded the LeetCode Medium problem and could only complete the algorithm and explanation part of the LeetCode Hard problem.

2nd Interview: At the start, the interviewer stated he was only interested in the algorithm and would not run the code. The question was quite simple, so I finished it in a few minutes. After discussing time/space complexity, the discussion moved to improving code readability. We still had a lot of time left, so the interviewer asked me to run the code and write test cases, which I also completed. Once all this was done, I was expecting another question as we still had almost 20 minutes left, but he did not ask any more technical questions.

Interview 1:

Q1) Maximum profit buy and sell stock and Maximum profit buy and sell stock at most 2 times.

Interview 2:

Find if a given string has all unique characters with the same frequency. "aabbcc" is valid, but "aabbccc" is invalid.