I received a few emails directly about the first round: Pair Programming. I had not had a recruiter call yet.

First, I had to complete a behavioral assessment (Agree/Disagree questions) after reading about the company values and acknowledging them.

The interview was for one hour. The interviewer was friendly and good. They said they would not ask a LeetCode-style question and were not looking to judge me on the time complexity of the solution. They stated they wanted to observe me code and that I needed to have the code almost production-ready (this is the part I think I failed).

I got carried away and solved the problem roughly, creating nested classes and all. When asked if this was the code I would push to production, I said no and explained what I would do to improve it (I guess that wasn’t enough).

Finally, I had time to ask some questions.

A couple of days later, I received a rejection email, despite the interviewer telling me that I would be hearing back about the next round soon.

Implement the functionality of an LRU Cache.

Would you push this code to production? Why or why not?