AICS interview questions

The interviewer is from Taiwan with heavy accent. Communicating in English was not a smooth experience. The first ten minutes were random questions about previous experience. The interviewer did not seem very interested in this section, and quickly moved on to the coding question. I got 1 LC hard and 1 LC medium. The interviewer did not help much and expected me to solve on my own. Again, communication with the interviewer to ask for hints was kinda useless.

The interview process was certainly comprehensive, including an introductory Codility test followed by 4 coding rounds. These rounds typically focused on hard Leetcode questions, and the interviewers require you to come up with the most efficient algorithm in 45 mins that took researchers years to discover. There's room to improve the conversational aspect of the interview. A detailed introduction of the interviewer's role before diving into the coding questions would add comfort for the interviewee. Apart from this, the interviewers tell you a long coding question orally, and paste some input and output in MS Team's chat, letting you think and understand all that they're saying verbally, never have I ever seen a coding round being conducted this way. Please cater to your interviewees, and have an online coding environment with a clearly pasted question for the interviewee to read. The process might benefit from a reconsideration of how many rounds are truly necessary to gauge a candidate's proficiency. There were no System Design related questions asked in these 4 rounds. The communication with the HR team could have been more comprehensive, particularly post-interview. Receiving feedback, even if not selected, would be valuable for interviewees.