A recruiter contacted me a while back, and I followed up recently. They set up a phone screen where the interviewer introduced himself and then proceeded to ask me a technical question. He broke it down into easy, medium, and hard difficulty portions.

The problem was a little abstract, and the interviewer had some difficulty explaining it to me. It was partly my issue understanding it as well.

After I had a decent understanding, I was able to progress most of the way through the easy and intermediate difficulty portions. He cut me off and then had a brief, friendly chat.

They said that my algorithms and data structures skills were good, but my technical communication was lacking, which is probably a fair evaluation. The engineer was extremely friendly, unlike some of the reviews I had been reading on Reddit.

It was a technical question related to streaming objects.