It started out pleasant with a phone screen conversation with the recruiter, but then it went downhill from there. They were very late for the technical phone interview, but I brushed it off as an anomaly.

Then came the onsite. The first interviewer was nice and intelligent but seemed to be expecting me to provide a very specific solution that he had obviously rehearsed very well. Though what I provided was close, it looks like he wrote me off because I didn't get that exact solution.

The next interviewer was a very jaded engineer who clearly didn't want to be there. He was unresponsive to questions. It was very awkward and put me off in a major way.

The experience interview was the only good interview in my opinion, and I had a good exchange.

The system design interviews were somewhat unforgiving. Tough luck if you haven't worked already at a company like, well, Facebook.

After more than a week, the recruiter told me – in recruiter speak, of course – that I was a terrible candidate and should think before applying again. Perhaps it's the process that needs work.

Why Facebook?