I entered a school challenge to demonstrate coding ability. I was told to bring my laptop to the interview in order to showcase some of my favorite projects.

I never had a chance to get out my laptop during the interview. I even asked to show my projects three times, and I was ignored by the interviewer.

I proceeded to whiteboard coding. The interviewer was on his phone, texting, while I was trying to talk and explain my reasoning about solving the problem.

The interviewer incorrectly stated something about HTML5 that I had known from experience. He even opted for a structure that he thought would be "easy to style" with CSS.

After researching, I confirmed my suspicions: no, it would require tremendous amounts of ugly absolute positioning and weird CSS calculations that are not supported in most browsers.

I successfully completed the second problem but had struggled on the first due to a lack of knowledge on a specific language technicality. I was told that "Whiteboard is King."

What a sad way to recruit talent.

Design a parking garage. The interviewer added constraints without specifying with much detail. I assumed this was because they were too busy on their phone. Once I fully understood the problem, I was easily able to answer the last segment of the question.