I spoke with a recruiter about the position initially, then moved on to a phone screen.

The phone screen was your standard fare:

• Talk about projects a bit.
• Answer some tech/coding questions.
• Do a programming test.

The programming test wasn't super straightforward. I went with a DP-based approach that the interviewer may or may not have understood. That is on me if I wasn't clear in my explanation.

But what was crazy was the feedback I got after. I was told I needed too many hints when I didn't ask for hints; they were given to me as I talked through my solution.

To have my only negative feedback (that I was given) be about something I had no control over is absurd.

Write a function to generate all valid nested parentheses for a given value N.

For example: If N = 1: "()" If N = 2: "()()", "(())" If N = 3: "()()()", "()(())", "(())()", "(()())", "((()))"