I initially had some phone screenings.

I was then placed on an initial coding interview, which seemed to go well. The questions focused on my experience and my past, and how it related to the role. The interviewer let me speak.

The first call was great, and I was having a good day. The coding session was smooth.

My second round was scheduled for a Monday. I had prepared and was ready. It was canceled almost 30 minutes beforehand. It was rescheduled, and the interviewer did not appear on the call.

Instead, someone else joined the call to observe. Additionally, another interviewer, not the one originally scheduled, was present.

The interviewer was not prepared and admitted he had not had a chance to review my resume.

I offered to share my screen during the coding exercise to give the extra person an opportunity to see what was going on.

The second round was a "pair programming" session, which was about 30 minutes of coding or less.

To be honest, the HackerRank seemed rushed. I was also never as comfortable with the interviewer as I was with the first round.

After the interviewer said he had not had time to prepare, he asked me several questions that made me feel uncomfortable. These included questions like: "Tell me about a bad experience at work and how you resolved it," "Tell me about a time where X happened," and "How did you convince someone your solution was correct?"

As part of the second interview, after rescheduling and then getting an unprepared, random interviewer, I was asked several awkward questions. I was never really allowed to share about my past or experience.

I was then brought into the HackerRank. The HackerRank went okay, but I felt rushed and still uncomfortable from the vibe of the negative questions.

Overall, after being rescheduled and then thrown into an interview with someone covering for another person, who was unprepared, I suppose I felt like I was having a bad day.

My answers and process throughout the second test were not exactly my 'A' game. After primarily discussing "conflicts," which were the only questions I could really respond to, I made an attempt to finish the coding session within 30 minutes. I made several mistakes, was a bit distracted, and was probably having an off-day by then. It's unclear if this was occurring before the awkward questioning or just by happenstance and frustration.

Describe a time when there was conflict.