I had a 30-minute recruiter call followed by the first interview round, which was supposed to focus on frontend coding, according to the recruiter.

However, it ended up being all about Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA). The interviewer conducted a 30-minute behavioral interview and then gave me a LeetCode hard problem to solve in the remaining 30 minutes.

To the recruiter: you had one job! Anyway, if I had cleared that round, the next steps would have been four 1-hour interviews—two coding rounds, one behavioral with a product manager, and the final one with a hiring manager.

The problem was a two pointer LeetCode hard problem.