The recruiter stage was fine. The recruiter was friendly and quickly moved me on to the second round.

In the second round, I interviewed with an engineer and was asked to work through an easy/moderate difficulty algorithm question. I quickly came up with the simple O(N^2) solution and then reduced it to O(N) time and space complexity when he asked. The conversation seemed to go well, and he implied that I would probably be moving on to the next round.

Days passed, and I reached out to the recruiter because I hadn't heard anything. She informed me that I wouldn't be moving on and suggested I wait "a few months" before applying to other roles.

I reached out to the engineer who interviewed me for feedback. He said he liked me and indicated that I should move on to the next round. Despite that, they just decided I wasn't a good fit for any current roles after having me complete the first two rounds of the interview process. It's a very odd and frustrating experience.

It was similar to the standard LeetCode medium difficulty.