What do you think about the interviewer?
He is an asshole
Not necessarily, may be their interview design is to ask one easy warmup and one hard. OP took too long to answer the warm-up and the interviewer should have failed him but decided to give him a chance by giving the hard question - just in case!
Do you think it’s a good idea to ask a leetcode hard in an interview?
I think he thinks you are smart.
Hang up
Don’t join
It is ok. If it is hard for you, it is hard for other candidates too. Just try to at least come up with something. Maybe he is not expecting you to solve it but would like to see your thoughts process.
15 mins only to get HARD ? That’s what she said
Did they ask you a coding problem before that? If so, maybe it was a warmup and you took too long. Leetcode hards during phone screens are starting to become a thing now.
Nope. Bunch of design
That’s messed up. It takes at least 15 minutes to come up with a proper approach to LC hard let alone even code and test the thing.
They may not expect a full solution. Sometimes if you finish too fast on one question they give you a question to see how far you will get.
Which company?
How do you know?
Looked up this task on leetcode 🤦🏻♂️