It was a strange experience. I applied for a position, and the recruiter reached out. We never had any initial phone calls or anything. They simply set up a Google Meets meeting for a 45-minute technical screening.

I solved the technical question in O(n) and showed another way it could be solved. I thought the conversation with the technical screener went well, so I'm a bit perplexed why I didn't pass.

• Given a string like "Wowwww", return the start and end indices of characters that repeat. This example would return 2, 5.

• How have you handled performance tuning in your applications?

• Other questions in relation to my resume