So I just finished my coding interviews with meta and first round the questions were 2 mediums top 100 tagged and I solved both optimally and was able to verify. The second interview, questions were completely novel. For the first one the comparable question on leetcode is marked hard. I solved it and was able to verify.. had a small bug that I caught during verification. The second question I was able to provide the approach and write the code but due to time constraints I couldn't finish verification. It also didn't help that it was a string question and big ticket string manipulation in java (my language of choice) is a bit of a pain.. so I ended up not using StringBuilder in my implementation because I was running very low on time (did mention to the interviewer that we can use it and reduce the actual time complexity of the program..).. any idea on if this is an automatic fail folks?

TL;DR - Solved 3, Gave the approach for 1 and implemented it but couldn't verify so might have some bugs.. interviewer said approach was correct. Thoughts on the verdict?

Update: Moved on to host matching :D