HR scheduled a phone screening interview with one of the engineer. Interviewer asked about current company , role and day-to-day activities and then briefed about role/team which I was being interviewed for. Interviewer quickly moved onto coding round. Question was to group anagrams from given list of words. I quickly briefed my approach ( hash tables) and started coding in Python. I could successfully execute the program with desired output. Interviewer asked about time complexity , corner/stress cases for given problem. I was able to answer all questions related to coding problem and interviewer looked convinced too. A day later , HR mailed me stating that she received negative feedback from interviewer and they decided not pursue any further. This entire episode baffles me till date.

Lousy HR to start with, I had 3 rounds of interview. Mostly juniors who came to interview with heavy head weight. The interviewers themselves were not clear on what they wanted. Not a very enjoyable experience.