"Overall, it took about three weeks to hear back after my initial phone screen, which felt longer than expected for a role like this. The technical round involved a DSA question on grouping anagrams, where I discussed my hashmap approach and its time complexity. a few days earlier. While I felt prepared, I stumbled on a follow-up question about Unicode handling, which impacted my confidence. Eventually, I got the no-offer news, but it was a good learning experience."