There were 3 interviews in total: 2 technical and 1 behavioral.

The interviewer failed to show up on time for the first 2 interviews, requiring rescheduling. This delayed the entire process, which lasted 3 months.

The second interviewer asked many "old-school" front-end questions that require memorization. I hadn't prepared for these, so I didn't perform well.

The live coding portion involved 5 "old-school" vanilla JavaScript questions. The IDE was a plain text editor with no syntax highlighting, typing suggestions, or test cases. My knowledge primarily comes from projects, and I hadn't prepared extensively, so I couldn't solve one of the questions.

I was ultimately ghosted and received a rejection after reaching out.

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