RejectedOnsite

Phone Screen to Full Onsite, Rejected on Code Quality

LinkedInSoftware Engineer · Onsite · Oct 2025

Applied in a big October application wave. Interviewing for a junior role. Phone screen: 1 hour, and we spent the first 15 minutes just chatting about my resume. Question 1 was a variant of a problem I only had a coded name for — it started with just () parentheses, then the follow-up expanded it to three different types of brackets. We discussed a stack-based approach versus one using a counter,…

Shared by a candidate · reported Oct 2025. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.