Misleading the entire way.

Had a 1h30m coding screening. Test cases were hidden, some tests were failing, and I had to make assumptions about the specs to get them to pass. Felt misled, but passed the screening nevertheless.

After the coding screening, I had another algorithmic challenge, this time live with two people. One of the interviewers seemed very happy to keep talking, and the other one did not talk the entire time and barely introduced himself; it was a little awkward. I implemented the algorithm in the remaining limited amount of time. I ran it on the first input, and it passed. The second input returned an incorrect value because of a tiny oversight on my part, which would have taken me literally 30 seconds (max) to fix. The interviewer said that he had no doubt I would get it working and said that I had a choice: ask him questions about the company or go and fix the issue, which led me to believe that I had passed the interview and could just ask questions about the company. The next day, I got a reply saying I didn't pass because the correct solution wasn't implemented. And this came after the interviewers said at the very beginning that the correct solution was not the focus and that what's important was how I reasoned about the problem and communicated my thoughts.

I felt absolutely misled and straight up sabotaged. I'm non-white and non-binary, so I can't help but think something about my identity might have made them sabotage my interview, or it might have been an honest screw-up on their side.

Algorithmic questions with an informal chat about experience.