I had a very strange interview experience with Indeed. I finished my interviews with a sense of having done well; the only uncertainty was whether I would be hired at a senior/staff level. I was quite surprised to have been rejected flat out, despite feeling like a stronger engineer than most of my interviewers.

For the coding interviews, I thought I did quite well. I achieved an optimal solution on the first, and almost optimal on the second. I was surprised to find out one interviewer chose to describe my implementation as buggy and that I did not have a good understanding of the code. This was completely false; either the interviewer misunderstood my solution, or they were flat-out dishonest.

The architecture interview was equally disturbing. I presented what I thought was a viable architecture, and the interviewer seemed perfectly happy with it. Yet, the feedback was quite negative and equally dishonest in some parts.

This seems like quite the pattern among interviewers at Indeed Tokyo, where the interviewers have no interest in seeing the candidate succeed and will encourage a suboptimal solution in order to sabotage the candidate. Either this company hires the brightest minds I've ever seen, or they have some agenda to not hire certain people despite merits. I strongly suspect the latter, as I objectively felt like I was a more competent engineer than my interviewers.

Overall, a very bizarre experience. It did not leave a positive impression on me in the least.

Had to sign an NDA.

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