The interview process began with a call with a recruiter, followed by a call with a director.

After that, there was a technical interview performed by a third party, Karat. This was completely useless.

There was an automatic denial if a minimum of two programming challenges weren’t completed. A simple bug took too long to locate (even for the interviewer), and therefore enough challenges weren’t completed.

I would recommend anyone interviewing with any company using Karat to request a different evaluation or apply with a different company. Using Karat shows that the company is more worried about saving time and money than finding knowledgeable candidates with a good team fit. After all, the best way to find that is for team members to perform the interview and see what it's like working with someone, and to know how they respond to situations and solve problems, rather than meet some arbitrary minimum goal.

Remember, interviews are a two-way street. Any company that uses this service and bases a decision on its outcome is only concerned with cost savings and not long-term team fit and candidate quality.

Even if Indeed made me an offer after this process, I would reject it unless Karat was never used again.

The interview questions were from a Karat interviewer, not an Indeed employee.