Recruitment was messy.

The recruiter responded, and we had an initial phone call, which is normal. However, at the end, I was told I'd get a time-sensitive email, but it was never sent. I had to reach out a week later to get the email. The recruiter claimed they were sick and forgot about it, so this was likely an anomaly.

My interview was also a mess. I applied for a front-end-focused role and was interviewed by someone who said they worked on the main Uber app's rideshare pricing algorithm. They gave me the interview question. I struggled with the first way to solve it, and they told me to switch to a different way. I struggled there, and they told me to switch back. By that point, there wasn't enough time to get to the solution.

The interviewer was not a good fit, nor good at conducting interviews. I will admit that at the end of the day, I didn't solve the problem, and that's on me.

The specific question was not provided, but the solution involved either a hashmap-based approach or a recursive approach.