The initial screening interview over Zoom was terrible. The recruiter was 15 minutes late and didn't seem to care. They gave off the impression that they just didn't want to be there, and they were quite intimidating and condescending.

The next stage was a technical interview. I was given the boilerplate code for an interface and told to design a system around it. The task provided was extremely vague, with no context about what I was being asked to do. I had to ask several questions to even figure out the requirements because the interviewer didn't explain anything. Once I understood the task, it seemed fair, as it involved building up classes step by step and considering how to interact with data within them.

I completed all the steps of this stage successfully but was then emailed to notify me that I was not being progressed.

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