First technical screen.

A person called me on the phone and gave me a problem to solve within 45 minutes on an online editor, which was like Notepad where they could monitor me.

I was well-prepared but I wasn't expecting to be interviewed by someone with such a strong accent. I usually don't have a problem with that, since my college has a lot of internationals and I'm somewhat international, but through the phone, it sounded so bad. I had to ask him to repeat almost everything he said to me. It was really bad and time-consuming, asking the interviewer to keep repeating what he said over and over.

I finished the problem just in time to ask 2-3 questions.

But the end of this made my experience worse. When I was asking a question, he said, "Sorry, we've run out of time. I have to hang up," and abruptly hung up.

I did not pass this interview, but I feel that if it were a different interviewer, I could have saved myself some time. I wasn't even sure if he could understand me most of the time because, you know, they say you have to think out loud. I tried to do that, but on his side, he didn't really respond to what I said, which really made me feel like I wasn't talking to a human.

Check if an array of strings (words) is sorted based on a given dictionary (this could be anything, not a real dictionary).