The interview was supposed to be one hour long. For the first 45 minutes, the interviewer asked questions about my project and some testing-related topics. With only 15 minutes remaining, I was given the LRU Cache implementation problem from LeetCode. I took 2-3 minutes to first understand the problem, as this was the first time I had encountered it. I then informed the interviewer that I would use a HashMap to solve the problem and began coding. At this point, I had only 10+ minutes left. However, after coding for about 5 minutes, the interviewer stated they had another interview and left 5 minutes early. This left me with some incomplete code and an opportunity to ask any questions I might have.

Two points:

1. If you are judging a test engineer based on coding skills, why not start with a coding problem first? If a candidate cannot solve the problem, then end the interview early or provide another problem.
2. If you still intend to assess coding skills in the last 10 minutes, please provide a problem that can reasonably be solved within that timeframe. Avoid wasting everyone's time if you do not intend to hire.

LRU Cache (LeetCode)