By far, this was the worst experience I've ever had.

I was reached out by a recruiter for a video technical screen. After clearing that, I had an interview with the hiring manager. Until this point, everything was good.

I was then called onsite. I had to commute to San Francisco for this interview. The HR greeted me and escorted me to a room. The first interview was with two people who had a laptop on which I was supposed to code. The coding task was ambiguous; they wanted me to code a problem in assembly language programming. Apparently, this was to check how good a candidate is at picking up new skills. The interview went fine.

It was followed by a cross-team interview conducted by a manager. All questions here were totally behavioral. This was followed by lunch. The interviewer answered my questions and left the room. After this, I ate my lunch and was waiting for the following four interviews to start, which were all going to be technical interviews.

It was 10 minutes past the interview start time, and nobody came to the room. I emailed the HR. After another 10 minutes, she came and told me that something in the product had BROKE, and the entire engineering team was fixing it. Therefore, no one was available to conduct the interview, and I was asked to leave.

I was told that they would contact me to schedule part two of the interviews.

This behavior is totally unacceptable. If you don't want to conduct the interviews, at least don't lie! That's the worst thing a company could do.

When a candidate walks in for an interview, the least you can do is make them feel comfortable. Nobody goes to an onsite interview to feel humiliated.

My advice to the company: Please never do this to any other candidate. Also, thinking too highly of yourself and the company is bad. The best places and people are the ones who are humble.