Positive interview experience. The interviewer was friendly and on time. They even asked if I had been in back-to-back interviews and if I wanted to take a couple of minutes to grab water or a bathroom break.

They spent the next couple of minutes introducing themselves, their tenure with the company, and what their team worked on. I was then asked to introduce myself and answer why I had applied to the SDE position at Rubrik.

We then dived into the coding challenge. The interviewer was helpful with hints and encouraged my thinking out loud. They were open to new solutions and did not expect just the traditional solution.

Given a list of words (a "bag of words") such as ["ball", "cat", "baby", "cater"].

Users run an alphanumeric query, for example, "ca1" or "ba2".

Return True if a word exists where the alphabets match the query and the number matches the length of the remaining characters. Return False if the word doesn't exist or if the word is not unique.

Examples: ca1 -> True cate1 -> True bab1 -> True ba2 -> False