Overall, a very bad experience.

Recruiter forgot we had a scheduled call.

Two technical phone screens:

1. The first interviewer kept dropping out of the call; this happened around 4-5 times in that hour. It was an easy question that I solved in 5 minutes. Afterward, the interviewer spent the rest of the time asking about time complexity, tradeoffs, and asking me to code it slightly differently. He didn't seem to know what to do with the extra time we had after I solved the initial problem.

2. The second interviewer told me to implement a deque API. I said I could do it with a doubly linked list, but he replied, "Yeah, that's the best theoretical solution, but that's not what I want." It took me some time to figure out what he wanted, but I ended up coding a circular queue and added tests for it.

Overall, it seems like they have a specific question and a very specific answer they are looking for. They are not testing how you think and solve problems but rather how good you are at guessing what they want. At least, that's how it seems. This makes for a very poor interview experience.

Then, I had to ask the recruiter for feedback after a week. They told me they were still waiting on feedback from one interviewer who was out of office. It has been 3 weeks now, and I haven't heard anything; I was simply ghosted.

An easy interview if you land on what they want exactly. Otherwise, good luck.

1. Given a string (array of characters), check whether any character has been duplicated.

2. Implement a MyDeque API with a fixed size.