There were emails, then a phone interview, then a technical interview. During this, I sat in a tiny room and was supposed to write a primitive CSV parser in half an hour while a man watched me. It was pretty uncomfortable.
I ended up feeling too much anxiety to concentrate at all; I just wanted to leave.
I'm marking the interview as difficult, but it was difficult as structured – the questions were fine. The expectation that I'd be able to do anything intelligent in that tiny room with a man looking over my shoulder was not so great, for me. There wasn't even a desk. I could either hold the laptop up so he could see it while sitting in an armchair, or hunch over an unusually short counter.
Lots of personal questions, actually. I can't recall any specific technical questions.
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