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Thank you for your feedback. At ThoughtExchange, we want to make the interview process a quick and respectful experience for each candidate. We try to give candidates the opportunity to meet several senior team members throughout the interview process. Unfortunately, scheduling and holidays can sometimes impact how quickly we move through each stage which it did in this case.
Part of what we look for in our interview process is how a candidate clarifies the requirements of a problem. For our algorithmic-based questions, we hope candidates have not seen the problem before. We attempt to describe a software problem in several ways, but we expect the candidate will dig deeper, if they require more information That said, we thank you for bringing to our attention the cultural context in which this particular question is framed (the secret santa question) and we will ensure we use more generic and inclusive language when describing software problems moving forward.