A Wordle-Style Coding Screen Nobody Warns You About

Not a question from the forum, which surprised me — I'd seen people on the forum say the phone screen here is basically coding rounds, IC/manager rounds, rate limiter, shopping cart, that sort of thing. The problem was roughly a guessing-word game: given a guess word and a target word, mark the status of each position. green: the two chars at this index are the same yellow: the two chars at this…

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