First Round Technical Phone Interview: This was a technical phone round that was overall positive. The problem was a LeetCode medium, and the expectation was to understand my thought process. I did well, had a working solution, and also explained how I would optimize it.

Virtual Onsite: This consisted of four rounds. Here is my experience:

1. Coding Round 1: A LeetCode hard problem, which was one page long. It took me about 15 minutes just to read and understand the problem, leaving me with only 25-30 minutes to solve it. There were no hints or guidance. It felt like a one-way interview designed to make me fail, and I did fail, but I never stopped trying.

2. Coding Round 2: A LeetCode medium problem. The interviewer explained the problem, and the data was formatted in tables. I had to extract the data into a format that would help me solve the problem, and I had flexibility in doing so. I came up with the input and was able to solve the problem, but I ran into some syntax issues due to casting. Since the platform used was HackerRank, I could not debug effectively within the given time. I did, however, go back to see the LeetCode solution and know that my solution would have worked. I also explained its optimization.

3. Manager Round: This is subjective. I think the conversation was really good, and I enjoyed talking to the Hiring Manager.

4. System Design: This is also subjective to what the interviewers perceive. Overall, I think this went well, and the solution I provided was definitely solving the problem at hand.

I was overall disappointed with the coding rounds and do not understand what I was being tested for. It was definitely not coding skills, as the problem was not fair enough to solve in 45 minutes. I am pretty confident even the interviewer would not be able to solve it in 45 minutes.

1. Coding Round 1 A LeetCode hard problem, which was one page long. It took me about 15 minutes to just read and understand the problem, leaving me with only another 25-30 minutes to solve it. There were no hints or guidance. It felt like a one-way interview, particularly set up to fail, and I failed but never stopped trying.

2. Coding Round 2 A LeetCode medium problem where the interviewer explained the problem. The data was formatted in tables, so I had to extract it into a format that would help me solve the problem, and I had flexibility on that. I came up with the input and was able to solve the problem but was running into some syntax issues due to casting. Since the platform used was HackerRank, I could not debug through it in the given time. However, I did go back to see the LeetCode solution and know that the solution would have worked. I also explained the optimization of the same.