The company initially connected with me online and reached out directly, asking if I would be interested in interviewing with them. I accepted.

I thought the initial phone conversation was going to be the typical behavioral/getting to know you type of interview questions, but it consisted of the interviewer praising me for approximately 10 minutes about how my experience and background was a perfect fit for the company/position. I was unable to get a word in edgewise since it seemed like a one-way conversation. While the compliments were nice to hear, I felt like the company wasn't really being very thorough in their selection process, nor were they taking advantage of that time to get to know me as a person or ask for more details about my technical skills. I decided to give them the benefit of the doubt and accept the offer to move onto the second round interview when invited.

The second round was a technical phone interview that consisted of a single data structure question using an online code editor for about 45 minutes. The second interviewer had a friendly tone and was much more conversational than the first. My only criticism for that portion of the interview is that I felt I wasn't given the opportunity to fully showcase my coding ability, as all they asked was a single question about a data structure, nothing more and nothing less.

The two interview experiences turned out to be very negative for me because I had the impression they weren't really fully interviewing me. For that reason, I decided that I was just going to decline an offer if I was told I was moving onto the next round. About two weeks after my second interview, I received an email saying they decided that I wasn't a fit for the role and were going to move forward with other candidates. I'm grateful that they were at least professional enough to do that for me.

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