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A recruiter reached out via email. After a quick call, I was scheduled for a technical phone screen. The interviewer turned out to have a really thick Chinese accent. I lost a lot of time trying to understand the interviewer explain their question

The phone screening was enjoyable, short, and casual. The coding challenge in the second interview step was easy but high pressure. No "hints" were given to me, at least, nor clarity on what the interviewer was looking for in an answer. I answered

It was a run-of-the-mill, back-to-back LeetCode process. The questions were reasonable, with nothing completely out of left field, but nothing directly applicable to a real-world working scenario either. The reviewer was professional.