A recruiter reached out to me via LinkedIn. I figured I'd give it a try to gain some interview experience, as I have been out of touch.

During the initial phone call, there were a bunch of behavioral questions. The recruiter asked me to apply to a position so that I could be sent a timed online technical screen. She described it would be a 60-minute test consisting of 3 questions.

I was told I could use the programming language of my choice, but the method stub syntax was in Java. I coded the solution in Python anyway, as it has been a couple of years since I worked on Java.

I was initially skeptical if 60 minutes was going to be enough for 3 questions. I am waiting for the next steps.

3 questions in online tech screen.

The tool they used for the online tech screen was poor. The editor was too small, and I found out towards the end that I could maximize it (talk about UI design!). I had to manually indent for every new line of code. Python, being indentation-significant, made tabbing for new lines of code awkward.

1. Closest k points
2. Reverse words in a sentence
3. Find/fix bug in a method