ByteDance

The recruiter reached out on LinkedIn, and the process was quite fast. It was only during the interview that both the interviewer and I realized the team was not a good match for me. Rejected after two rounds and no feedback. Confused.

The interviewer went straight to a coding question and asked me to write the solution without additional steps, such as walking through the code. However, they did allow me to talk about an idea I had.

Talked about my resume for 30 minutes and was asked an easy LeetCode question: Number of Islands. I didn't hear back from HR for two weeks. They eventually decided not to move forward, citing no headcount.