This is a second phone interview. No OA
I've absolutely no idea why I failed this phone screen. It went like this.
Total duration : 1 hour
First 25 mins :
Introduction about the team, going through my resume and 4 standard LP's
TBH i wasnt 10 here. Probably 8
Next 30 mins:
Following problem after that.I already solved this before. I asked if I have to create a TreeNode class. The interviewer said it is not required. So I wrote the entire code but didn't run the test cases as there was no time left. Since the interviewer told me to assume there would be a TreeNode class I wasn't expecting to run testcases (I did not ask too many questions that might be a red flag)
https://leetcode.com/problems/boundary-of-binary-tree/
Last 5 mins : If I have any questions
May be I did not do as well as I thought on LP's. I wasnt a 10 on LP's but I wasn't that bad either. I was shocked to hear that they decided not to move forward.
The whole process took about 5 weeks. It feels really bad to get rejected after 5 weeks of hope.
Any thoughts on why I might have failed this ? Should I've focused more on LP's ?