The recruiter was great with communication and very patient about me scheduling my interview for when I was ready. Coming from a non-CS background, I spent a good 20 hours per week studying for two months. I felt pretty well prepared.

My expectations for the phone screen did not align with what I encountered. It was pretty much 'now start coding the answer to this fairly complicated problem...'. Pretty hit or miss. I was expecting a more informal conversation and a basic data structures and algorithms question or two, and then something like this for the onsite interview.

Question about determining the shortest length word you could create with a set of letters.