Had an online assessment on CodeSignal with an option to take the test unproctored. Did they expect me to use AI or not? It wasn't clear, but I did not use AI, knowing that despite it being unproctored, they still track every keystroke.

Extremely lengthy questions. What used to be easy in previous years (questions 1, 2) and medium (questions 3, 4) are now all medium to hard. Not sure if CodeSignal adjusted their difficulty or if Zoom did. Some questions expect highly optimized solutions even, constantly running into TLE.

The questions themselves were lengthy, each 20-30 lines with nuances all over, so you can quickly skim through the question. I had a terrible 75 minutes with my confidence completely assaulted. I didn't even bother to find solutions to these problems after the test (which I normally do when I fail a technical interview) because I felt their expectations from the candidate are sky high, just because software engineers are now suddenly a dispensable commodity like high-quality toilet paper.

DSA? Algorithms? I wouldn't know because I don't have the reading speed of a robot.