Phone screen interview. It was as I expected, with minimal to no interaction with the interviewer during the coding questions. You would have to be really good at figuring out an optimal solution in the given time or have solved the question beforehand. I was given a problem that required using a modified version of binary search. I was able to explain my approach but got caught up in the implementation part. The second problem was easier since it was on LeetCode. Although it was optimal and the code format was easy to follow, the feedback on the formatting was not good. I thought that was unfair. Another problem I had was I gave explanations for approaches to my solutions before and after coding. The feedback said I didn't communicate while coding. I'm not sure what the standard was for communication. It felt like I could say the same about the interviewer's communication.

1. Given a sorted list of characters and an input character, get the character if present. If not, get the closest character in the array that appears before it alphabetically.
2. Shortest Word Distance II in LeetCode.