An engineering manager reached out.

Next, there's a phone screen, followed by an online coding test. During this test, the interviewer will share a CoderPad link and call you on the phone.

If you move on to the on-site portion, there are four more interviews to follow.

They asked me to implement a key-value store.

I asked if using the default HashMap in Java would suffice, and the interviewer confirmed it would. I then proceeded with the implementation.

I improvised the question to include retrieving a timestamped value.

I completed the code to pass all test cases.

I wish they had provided some feedback for not moving forward.