The initial phone screen was standard, nothing exceptional. It involved going over the company and some of my experience for about half an hour. The main issue arose during the technical interview.

Contrary to most other technical assessments I've undergone, the engineers I worked with at Assurance IQ were absolutely not interested in any kind of pair programming, thinking out loud, or back-and-forth discussion. Essentially, you are given two hours to answer an algorithm-related question, and that's it. The engineers conducting the interview were not interested in following the logic to answer the question; I could tell that they were purely interested in getting the correct answer.

Given a set of data, apply the formula to determine the answer to the given algorithm.