I applied online and had an initial screening with a recruiter. They informed me that the process involved a live tech screening followed by an eight-hour, unpaid, virtual onsite. The recruiter was very friendly and sent me a ton of preparatory material for the tech interview, with guidelines about what to expect and how to approach the exercise.

Fast forward to the actual technical interview. The interviewer stated he wasn't going to follow the plan the recruiter laid out at all; he was going to do it his way, which was a very LeetCode, rapid-fire approach.

I have ADHD and ASD. After the initial, very unwelcome surprise format change, I tried to regroup, but the interviewer never really gave me the chance. He spoke very quickly but wasn't using a microphone, so instructions were difficult to understand. He sounded impatient when I asked him to repeat himself.

While actually doing the exercise, if at any time I tried to talk through the problem, he became impatient and started writing the code himself. Generally speaking, he was brusque, swore, and behaved so unprofessionally that I was a little relieved when he cut the interview short and told me I'd failed.

Overall, it was a really poor showing for the company and very disappointing, considering how friendly and approachable the recruiting team was.

The interview focused on the distribution of a pool of money to a group of parties, all of whom were owed a set amount.