Absolutely horrible process. The first call with the recruiter was alright, but the live coding session was horrific. The girl I got had a nasty attitude, and the whole time wasn't paying attention and did not want to be there. She was also a straight detriment to my session.

Part of the interview, I think, was stating assumptions and arriving at requirements together, and she did not help. I got a tic-tac-toe game, and I literally said out loud, "So can I assume the board will be locked in at 3x3?" and she kinda half-shook her head yeah, so I started coding with this idea in mind. I got a good chunk of the winning condition down before she said, "We can't assume the board will be 3x3." I was so frustrated I couldn't help but just laugh a little.

The weird part too was that the interview seemingly had a structure, as well as some half-done ChatGPTed PDF to help prepare for it, but none of it actually went through or helped. The bottom of the problem had test cases, and so eventually I got my code to pass them all, but then she said, "Well, these don't cover all of the cases???" Like, what? You made them!

Tic Tac Toe game to code