I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Coursera in Nov 2018
Interview
I received a Hackerrank invite via email that consisted of 2 difficult questions. My code passed all the test cases, even my own custom ones, but I still received a rejection letter.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Count the number of distinct palindromic substrings of a given string.
I was given an online Hackerrank assessment to do. I could not finish the problems in time but put comments to explain my thought process. I expected to fail based on my responses but I did not hear back for several weeks either way on the status of my application.
Well I was sent a HackerRank coding challenge which included 2 questions and just an hour to complete both. The first question was ridiculously hard but the second a little easier.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given 3 strings, one for a prefix, one full word, and one suffix, determine whether the prefix or suffix is longer based on the full word given.