[AbbeFaria]

I recently interviewed with a startup. They had "outsourced" the first round to a 3rd party firm that specializes in taking tech interviews (Mostly Algorithm rounds).

The interviewer posted an LC question and asked me to read it. Since I was already logged into my LC account, he first asked me to show if I had solved it. I said I did. He then posted 9-10 LC questions one by one, all of which I had solved (I was doing LC regularly then). In the end he got tired, and posted a question from another website (Hackerearth) which I hadn't solved. We ended up taking ~5 minutes just going through different LC questions and he was disappointed that I had solved all of them.

I have also faced situations where I have seen an LC question that I solved but couldn't solve it in an interview setting, mostly because of the pressure.

[the_arun]

Unfortunately goal of interviews these days is to know what you don’t know, instead of what you know