Typical HR phone screen followed by 1 hour technical interview. Unusually, my interviewer didn't ask anything about myself or my experience, just immediately started giving me problems to solve. I'm not sure if he even gave me his name.

In total there were 3 problems related to parenthesis - the first two are common problems and quite easy. The last one was extremely strange. It was described as max width of nested parenthesis - but the examples I was given were fairly complex and it was clear the problem was far more complex than the problem title implies. Keep in mind we had probably 20 minutes left in the interview and I had already solved 2 problems - it took significant time to simply understand the given examples.

Overall this struck me as totally inappropriate for a 1 hour tech screen. Braze seems to be interviewing as if they're Google, but this simply doesn't match their reality in the industry.

Balanced Parenthesis

Depth of nested parenthesis

Max width of nested parenthesis (actual problem unclear)