I went in for a 30-minute screening interview. The interviewer got my name wrong and called me "Miss," but I'm a man. I was told to ask any questions I had first, and as a result, I think I spent too much time, causing us to run out of time for everything else. The interviewer didn't know the answers to my questions either, and to be honest, I had a very difficult time understanding what they were saying the entire time.

I was asked to solve a coding problem in C, even though I listed Python on my application. As a result, I did terribly, even though it was a painfully simple problem. He spent nearly 10 minutes abstracting the beans out of it. I was not asked a single behavioral question, just "When do you graduate?" and "What language did you list on your application?"

I took too long to understand what he was trying to ask, so he told me right then we were out of time, and I didn't have a chance at this job.

The entire thing left me dazed and confused.

How do you store a 2D data set of indeterminate size without n^2 access time?