Yesterday, I received an online coding assessment from Cisco for the Software Engineer 2 role. The assessment consisted of three questions, which were of Easy to Medium difficulty:

1. Check Alphabetical Order: Given a string, determine whether the characters follow alphabetical order. If they do not, return the index where the order breaks; otherwise, return 0.
2. https://leetcode.com/problems/house-robber/description/
3. https://leetcode.com/problems/spiral-matrix/description/