I originally really wanted to work here, but now my view on the company has changed.

This is my first interview review, and I'm doing it to express the negative interview experience I had. The evaluation criteria make no sense.

1. DS&A problem: LC Medium (Completed in 15-20 minutes with optimal complexity.)

2. Open-ended OOP design question.

The interviewer has a very strict idea of how they want to do things. They will constantly stop you and ask questions when they don't agree with your design. The interviewer changed the question midway because they thought my design would not work for a different function, even though that wasn't initially asked for.

I don't agree with asking OOP design questions that are connected to a very specific game. Many people are not familiar enough with a game to deliver the desired representation in 30 minutes.

Unless you spend your time modeling and recreating different kinds of games, you will not pass here. If you have experience playing the games they ask about, you will have a better chance just from familiarity alone.

I doubt these engineers can pass their own criteria for design questions without knowing the problem beforehand.

LC medium