META| Phone Screen | E5 | US
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A recruiter reached out to me asking if I was interested in interviewing, I'd already been preparing so scheduled the phone screen 2 weeks hence.

YOE: 6+

Questions:
Q1 - https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/124616/
I had a minor typo in Q1 which I couldn't find out quickly enough (even though I fixed a lot of bugs during the dry run) but otherwise this code was perfect. I think the interviewer was disappointed when I didn't find that typo/bug. It was basically p2 += p2 (should've been p2 += 1)

Q2 - https://leetcode.com/problems/binary-tree-right-side-view/description/ + left side view (reversed)
e.g
1
/
2 3
/ \
4 5 6
output: [4, 2, 1, 3, 6]
This took me some time to complete, it wasn't the optimal solution but I finished implementing it within the time alloted using BFS.

I was pretty confident I'd move to the onsites but just got a reject. I'm not really sure what they wanted. Recruiter said "unable to provide any feedback regarding this decision". I'm just gutted. I've solved more than 250 questions, I thought I'd done well.

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