A recruiter looked at my LinkedIn profile and contacted me there. I got my first phone interview set up with two interviewers. The interview was scheduled for a week later.

• The interview started by asking about my present job, team details, and work specifications.
• We then moved to collabedit.com for technical questions.

Q1: Given a string, return true if it is a number, else return false. (Pretty straightforward) Q2: What is a singleton class and how would you design it? Some threading-related considerations for it. Q3: Write a parseInt function (Similar to Q1).

I answered all the questions nicely, with no objections. Since I had referred to Glassdoor for practice, I was familiar with all these questions. How could I have gotten them wrong?!

But still, I got a rejection. No reasoning was given. They told me they found me a potential candidate but could not go ahead for now.

They come with a preset mind for a solution, and if you don't do it in that way, then you are in trouble.