The interview consisted of two 30-minute sessions.

The first session was behavioral, with typical questions about projects and preferred tasks. I was also presented with higher-level design questions, such as how to programmatically represent a family tree and describe various use cases.

The second session was Java-heavy, involving descriptions of keyword differences and some structure manipulation.

After I finished, and was told I answered everything correctly, I was informed that my major made my design views not align with typical engineers. I disagreed and asked for a chance to prove myself. They called in a manager, asked another question, and continued adding constraints until I could no longer solve it. At this point, I felt they were not interested and were merely making the problem harder to push me out of the interview.

I got an arrogant vibe from the technical interviewer, which is not the first time I've heard about Intuit. Their higher-ups were pleasant, but they were unable to give me a clear reason as to why I couldn't move on.

Remove an item from a singly linked list.

Next: Do it with no additional memory usage.