Onsite Coding Went Great, Then the HM's System Design Round Sank It

This role was billed as fullstack, but the interviews barely touched anything front-end related. And the final round — I got screwed over by the hiring manager. The phone screen was on 4/17. After I finished it we just chatted. The next day HR told me I passed and moved on to the onsite (VO). VO Coding 1 Question 1: a simple calculator that only needs to support addition and subtraction. ["+", 1,…

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