The initial coding interview over video was very nice.

However, the "loop" interviews were horrible:

• They allowed all interviews to be conducted by video from home. This enables well-qualified and sophisticated candidates to set up cheating with AI and a human assistant. From your home, it is easy to do and impossible to detect. This would give them an edge when there are many qualified candidates for a job. When such a candidate is hired, they do very well and are not fired for poor performance. Meta does not seem to care that many of their hires may have subtly cheated.

Final interviews should always be conducted in person.

To prove that I was not cheating, I offered to come in person.

• Interviews started late because they were late to bring me to the office.

• For the coding interviews, I was given an office without a table and chair, only a short, uncomfortable sofa and a small, soft cube with a monitor and camera. There was no space to put my laptop so it did not obscure the camera (one of the interviews was still remote), keyboard, and mouse. I could not sit properly; I had to squat, with no place to put my legs or arms comfortably. Basically, they were testing if you could program while doing yoga.

• For the systems interviews, they asked questions that had no connection to the job requirements, job description, or my resume, and they expected good domain knowledge, not just attempts to solve.

• For the systems interviews, the interviewers spoke with a heavy Chinese accent, making them difficult to understand. Additionally, they interrupted me very often with complaints, which were incomprehensible because of their accents.

When Google first started, you would type in the search phrase and get the results. But now, when you start typing, Google gives you auto-completion suggestions for your query.

Design such a system.