My interview was a first-round live coding interview. It involved solving a coding problem in a language of your choice and talking through the process with your interviewer. Pretty standard technical screen.

This was a pretty easy coding question about summing numbers in a matrix. I wrote the code very quickly.

Afterward, I discussed optimizing with the interviewer. However, the interviewer would not stop talking during the optimization discussion. I felt I had no room to think or come up with my own solution.

It seemed like she was trying to guide me in a certain direction, but she was doing an incredibly poor job of it.