Step 1: Tech screen on HackerRank (easy questions).

Step 2: Recruiter call, scheduled a set of remote interviews.

Step 3: Coding interview. The interviewer was unfriendly, not really listening, and tried to push his own solution. He was resistant to settling on the n*Log(n) solution.

Step 4: Hiring manager interview - all good.

Step 5: Architecture interview - all good, as expected.

Step 6: So-called Bar Raiser - this was a behavioral interview focused on tolerance for workplace diversity. It felt unusual.

Step 7: Rejection email.

The "implement LRU (Least Recently Used) cache" question is a classic.

All operations must be O(1) time and space.

Prepare to be pushed toward a very specific data structure.