global consulting firm Software Engineer interview experience

It was run on a HackerRank-style platform, and I remember not getting enough time to fully work through all the questions that were included in the online test. During the pre-placement talk they gave a detailed overview of the company, which helped, but the timed format still threw me off.

Later, I went through a different phone screen that was also framed like a hard LeetCode-style problem. It was a 45-minute technical conversation where I was expected to explain my solution out loud over the phone, without any shared coding environment or link for them to watch the solution run. After I