Coalition interview questions

I was contacted by Coalition via Linkedin. I did a first interview about my previous experience, everything went normal until I asked for the salary range of the offer. I was offered 65k+ benefits, however the salary range on the job offer was 125k-200k. When confronted the recruited replied it was because of the USD - Euro difference (I would be working from Europe and never said I would prefer to be payed in Euro), and would look into it. Never replied about this. Only a person was working from Europe out of a team of around 10 people.

First interview was a short (30 minute) "talk about your previous experience". It was fine. Second interview was a technical interview with a live coding exercise and then (according to the agenda that was sent to me) some time to talk about one of the company values. The technical portion was fine. I was given a problem to solve and some tests to pass. I finished the initial problem pretty quickly and passed the tests. Then the interview added another condition to the original problem. I added some code to meet one of the new requirements and was working on the second added requirement when the interviewer decided that the second requirement was not possible to solve. So, he modified the original problem again, and again I solved it pretty quickly, passed the tests, and we briefly discussed the correctness of my solution. Then we were supposed to discuss the company value that I had been told to prepare for, but instead we talked more about my experience and did some "Tell me about a time when ..." questions. It's hard to say exactly what they are looking for with these questions, but I felt like I did a pretty good job of giving good examples. The interviewer mentioned that he hadn't been informed of what the interview agenda was supposed to be. So, I'm not sure what happened there but it seems like if the interviewer and interviewee are given conflicting information going in, that is problematic. It was a little odd also to be given a technical interview by a single developer who wasn't very senior, and who didn't have a whole lot of professional experience altogether. At the end of the interview, apropos of nothing he recommended the book "How to Crack the Coding Interview". I'm not sure if he was trying to drop a hint to me or what. I did fine on the technical portions, so I was a little confused why he felt the need to recommend the book. At any rate, even though I can't see anything that I grossly missed on this technical interview, apparently this single developer had the power to not advance me to the next round. Honestly, with the overall experience of the interview, I consider this a bullet dodged on my part.