One of the rare occasions I terminated the interview process; it was that bad!

I passed the first few rounds (recruiter interview, Karat online assessments) and was ready to go onsite. Then, I started to have bad feelings.

First, the onsite interview was long – 7 hours! This is longer than even FAANG companies.

Second, one of the onsite interviews was a 105-minute coding round on HackerRank, which stated, "After 10 mins, interviewer goes on mute and you’ll have 90 mins to solve on your own." This could just be an online assessment; why did they want to waste 2 hours of my workday just to have another person watching over my shoulder?

Third, trying to communicate and schedule with the recruiter was a frustrating experience. The recruiter was a contractor, very unresponsive (think days without a response), and replied in short sentences without much value. I had to push multiple times to get the information I wanted.

For a company that praises itself as helping people find jobs, it provided a very bad experience for its own candidates. Being too frustrated, I terminated the interview loop!

LC easy, simple string and hash operations. Nothing to write home about.