I applied for the HackerRank challenge online in mid-September of 2019. The challenge that year was the "Autocomplete Scores" question, which can be found on LeetCode. I received an email stating that I had passed a little over a week later and scheduled a 1-hour phone interview for two weeks after.

The phone interview itself was great. I was asked about designing a basic storage system and how to make it fault-tolerant. The interviewer was friendly, and we solved the problem "together." I felt I performed well.

I followed up a week after the interview and was told they would have an update for me shortly. I never received an update and followed up again two weeks later. The recruiter finally asked to schedule a 20-minute HR call that week. I provided my availability and also some offer deadlines, but never received a response. At that point, I had given up and accepted another offer.

It's one thing to be ghosted, but another for a recruiter to ask for availability for a short call and then never schedule it.

OA: Auto-complete Scores

Phone Interview: Basic Fault-tolerant Storage System Design.