Screening call: Pleasant and decent. If you're already looking for tips on how to pass the screening call with the recruiter I don't think GlassDoor will help you.

Technical screen: This was a 1 hour technical screen using a shared coding page. Nothing like presenting yourself as a senior-level engineer and being asked to find char code differences in a long string.

Barely a medium-level question on LeetCode, but man, unless you practice your butt off on these things it doesn't matter if you've been a paid engineer for 9 years. It doesn't matter if the day before you turned in 50 hours of production-quality code for a full-stack take-home project to another company.

You will crumble into a struggling bootcamp baby as you make mistakes you haven't made since you were a student, as a tired and bleary-eyed senior engineer sighs and checks his Slack channel.

Please, stop doing LeetCode challenges. Knowing how to count words in a sentence is not comparable to engineering a performant and testable API or a modular and clean React interface.

Give people a take-home project that takes 3-5 hours and just read their code. After that, you can reenact the whiteboarding scene from Silicon Valley (you know the one) if you want. Just don't make us do a LeetCode challenge in front of you. It's awful.

And no, I didn't get to the next step.

From a long string taken from a book, parse it and find and return the word whose first and last characters have the greatest distance between one another in the alphabet.

Examples: "dog" would be 3 [ABS(4-7)] "Alcatraz" would be 25 (ABS(1-26)] - after converting to lower case, of course.