Contacted by a recruiter who set up 3 interviews.

1st was technical, 2nd/3rd were “behavioral” (technical). No coding in any interview except one question in the last that was impromptu.

Overall questions: All the interviews asked the same questions pretty much…

• Describe tech stack you’re working on/why those technologies
• Object Oriented questions
• Software Architecture/Design questions
• Code testing questions (like functional testing, unit testing)

Overall experience: Very Bad

1st Interview: Interviewer was late, disinterested from the very beginning, rushed interview, was unsatisfied with every answer and I was “corrected” every time. Mind you, the questions were open like “In your own words describe Object Oriented programming”. So I’d answer literally describing the concepts and principles of Object Orientation and how they are used IRL then they’d go “Well no it’s [xyz] but let’s move on” .

2nd Interview: Late again, very late. Rushed. Finished early. Interviewer was actually nice. But just kept apologizing for being late. Barely asked questions.

3rd: Same story as 1st interview but worse. They were not paying attention, working/chatting with someone on Teams (which I could hear clearly). I am not kidding when I said every time I opened my mouth they scoffed and rolled their eyes. Then did their little “corrections” with a hint of scolding.

Example: “Why did you decide to convert from React vs Angular?” “(Clarifying) The team was converting when I was brought on, (explanation) although the reason was [xyz] because [xyz] (FR: talked about how the increased interactivity of our SaaS was slowing down our application because of the two way data binding, and with increased routes, debugging scopes was becoming very inefficient.)“ “(Verbatim) That doesn’t seem right and has nothing to do with this. I don’t like engineers who don’t want to understand and just work”

I don’t think I’ve ever had an interviewer be that rude to me before.

To end the interview with about 10 mins left they spent a couple minutes to throw a little impromptu function in the chat to write a unit test for it, because they didn't believe I knew how I guess. The perfect ending to my final “behavioral” interview.

Takeaway: Prepare as if every interview will be technical and consider ending the call when people are rude to your face. Not worth your time and you deserve better.

No coding. Object-Oriented Principles. React vs. Angular. JavaScript Basics. Software Design - “Describe a software design pattern you like.” Functional/Unit Testing.