Applied and heard back from the recruiter the following week. It was a really good initial conversation – we covered experience, product interest, and culture fit.

The second step was a technical phone screen on a live coding platform. It involved a LeetCode medium question. One person was interviewing me, and another was shadowing. They were very friendly and provided some good pointers and feedback about my algorithm when I lost the thread.

Brush up on string search and manipulating strings.