A recruiter reached out to me and asked me to take a fairly easy HackerRank assessment. I passed that.

Then, I was assigned three interviews with members of the team. Although, due to a scheduling error on their part, I only attended two of them.

At these interviews, I was asked a LeetCode medium question and a LeetCode hard-level question. Maybe I just got unlucky, but the difficulty of the HackerRank questions (which were really easy) did not line up with the level of questions I was asked during the interview.

LC M: Make the smallest number by removing k.

LC Hard level: Still cannot find this question or even how to solve it, but it involved recursive backtracking, and I was stumped.