The recruiter called, and there was an initial general phone screening. The recruiter was friendly and courteous.

Then, a HackerRank online code test for 1.5 hours was scheduled. There were many questions such that you couldn’t finish them in the given time. So, I attempted most questions, couldn’t attempt a few due to time shortage, and know for a fact they were right (all test cases passed for coding questions).

I got rejected with the reason that the score didn’t meet their cutoff. So, I’m not sure if they even go through your code and approach. Knowing whatever was answered was right, I somehow couldn’t be convinced that they reject merely based on cutoff score and not even trying to know the candidates’ technical skills.

One could definitely solve these problems on a whiteboard with better optimized solutions. The acquaintance to this coding platform, short of time, would make even good candidates score less than the cutoff (but not have wrong solutions). The company is missing such candidates by this merely objective approach.

Few coding questions, a few MCQs on general tech topics, and a few on DB.