The recruiters were good and explained the team's process. They said they wanted someone to lead the team and work on building up its processes. However, the team interview consisted of three sessions: two were pure algorithm questions, and one was a dynamic programming problem.

I did ask if this was applicable to their daily work, but they said they mainly build and prototype new product features on the web. Yet, only one session was about product and web-related experience and team building. The experience the recruiters said they wanted (and why I took the time to interview) never really came up.

They asked the island area/perimeter question and evolved it into the dynamic programming solution.