8 months wasted...

I was contacted by their internal recruiter from Boston last summer. Then, after a series of jobs being "de-funded", etc., I got an actual in-person interview through a different channel – a local employee referred me.

So I had to start over from scratch with a new recruiter. This one wouldn't send me the actual job description until the last minute. When I finally got it, it appeared they wanted someone who knows Angular.

I have several years of JavaScript and know some Angular – not much, so I spent the weekend studying up on my Angular.

Interview time rolled around – not one question about Angular.

Interviews were a series of four half-hour one-on-ones: two behavioral and two technical. The technical interviews were awkward because they booked a room without a whiteboard. Also, it's weird when the interviewer tells you your answer is wrong when it's not.

The behavioral interviews were weird because the project managers didn't seem to want to have a one-on-one conversation like humans do, but just wanted to ask standard interview questions and look at their clipboards to write down every single word of your answer. Every. Single. Word.

In JavaScript, how would you count the number of each item in an array, such as ["A", "B", "C", "A", "A"]?

Behavioral interview questions were standard, such as: what is your biggest strength, tell me about a time you overcame a challenge, etc.