The first round was a 15-minute chat with a recruiter – pretty standard, not super personal. They asked about my prior experience, why I was leaving my current job, and what I wanted out of my future career.

I was then sent a meeting invite for the next round. It was a 1-hour interview, with 45 minutes allocated for coding and then a buffer for questions. I found it interesting that the person running the interview had only been at the company for months.

The interview consisted of a four-part question, where each part unlocked as I finished the previous one. I made it to part 4 and got about 90% done. They then had me explain how I would have finished it.

Afterwards, I asked a few questions, and we had a nice chat. I felt very confident coming out of that interview.

Then, I got the rejection email the next day. I asked for feedback but haven’t heard back. It is frustrating not knowing what they dinged me on after feeling good about it.

Why are you leaving your current position?

Take a string, parse it, and output some text based on whether the parsed items are ‘valid’ according to a set of parameters.

Building on the previous task, but with more validations.