I met with a manager at a Big Ten career fair who helped me narrow down which specific jobs to apply for. For all three applications I submitted, I was requested to fill out a HackerRank assessment.

The Frontend test had HTML/JS problems that were well above my level, so I turned it in mostly blank. With the Backend one, I felt much better, and it led to an interview. I never completed the third one.

The one interview I had consisted of the same manager I met with at the fair (as he managed the backend team) and two other interviewers who specialized in technical and HR questions. The interview was only an hour long: half was spent on a coding whiteboard, a quarter on reading code in an unknown language, and the last bit on typical interview questions. Because of this, there was not a lot of time to ask questions.

They initially said there was a short final interview to go through, but a few days later, I received a call saying they were drafting my offer letter. The manager was nice and offered an extra meeting so I could ask more questions about the program.

What do you do when you get stuck on a problem?