Wish Software Engineer interview experience

I had a phone screen where the early questions were more conceptual and tied to what was on my CV, which was a bit odd to me, and then I got a coding problem that landed closer to a harder LeetCode medium. I remember realizing I might be out early when I heard nothing for weeks.

Later, another attempt looked similar at a high level: technical rounds with LeetCode-style difficulty, but with a heavy emphasis on exact performance and timing. In one technical interview I got all the way to a solution, but still tripped on a time-complexity detail and ended up failing. Another time, I aced two