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The interview started with a phone call. I was given a medium-difficulty programming question about finding the longest chain of words where each word differs by only one letter from the previous word in a dictionary. The interviewer was nice, and

The interview was very organized. The interviewer was very kind, and the conversation progressed smoothly. After learning more about the position, I politely declined to move forward with next steps.

I don't agree with their hiring philosophy and its accuracy in measuring an engineer. It uses the typical LeetCode, HackerRank, and CodeChef questions, which are straight out of competitive programming.