I had a 20-minute phone screen that went really well. We scheduled a 30-minute technical phone interview a couple of days later.

The technical phone interview started off poorly because, for some reason, their code-sharing service wasn't working. They had me use another service that was just as useful as using Notepad (no code help or previewing your solution at all). The first half was pretty easy CSS and HTML, and I feel like I aced all of those questions. The final question was a JavaScript problem. It was something like, "Given an array of arrays, return the values back to the user in a single array, but in a particular order" (basically a1[0], a2[0], a3[0], a1[1], a2[1], a3[1], a1[2], a2[2], a3[2], etc.).

I'm pretty comfortable with vanilla JavaScript, but in that moment, I was wrapped up in why they would want the answer returned in that specific order. Without being able to preview my work anywhere, it was difficult. After I finally landed on what I thought might be a solution, the interviewer then said he had no more questions; and that's when I knew I was done for.

After the interview, I spent a few minutes of my time coming up with an actual solution that worked. I double-checked it on a test page I made and emailed it to the interviewer, explaining that writing JavaScript with no way to preview it is difficult, but when given a chance, I can come up with a solution to any problem.

I never heard back from him. Eight days later, the Zillow recruiter emailed me, stating they went with other candidates.

Given an array of arrays, return the values back to the user in a single array, but in a specific order. The order is a1[0], a2[0], a3[0], a1[1], a2[1], a3[1], a1[2], a2[2], a3[2], and so on.