I had three rounds of phone interviews with Nuro.

The first was a basic get-to-know-you with the recruiter, and the other two were technical. I was told that the first was a coding interview and the second was a design interview. My resume is very similar to the description of the role I was applying for.

The first interview went very well. The interviewer was respectful and well-spoken. She asked me a few questions about my resume and a straightforward coding question about how to deep copy an object. Since I was applying for a full-stack/frontend position, I wrote my solution in Javascript. The interview went well, and I could definitely see myself working with her.

The second interview was an absolutely horrid experience. I could barely hear or understand the interviewer, and the call actually dropped several times during the interview. He gave me a coding problem (with a solution that was similar to the first) that lacked clarification, so I had to spend half of the time understanding what he wanted me to code. I should also mention that this was not a design question, as the recruiter stated it would be in our initial discussion. After the coding part, the interviewer asked me some domain knowledge questions that were completely unrelated to the position I was applying for. I was so taken aback by these questions that I actually asked what position he was interviewing me for.

Two weeks later, I got an email telling me that they had decided not to move forward. I was slightly relieved since I would not want to work with that second guy.

Some simple recursion problems.