Interviewer shows up nearly 10 minutes late. The interviewer starts off the interview by essentially telling me that the language/role I'm applying for isn't their area of expertise, but that they've dabbled in the language before.

I proceed to work on the coding question, trying to discuss the process with the interviewer. The interviewer is in a very loud environment and is clearly not paying attention to the interview as it proceeds.

All the while, I'm gauging for verbal confirmation or thoughts on some of my approaches, to which I get 'yes, that would work,' 'that makes sense,' 'that approach looks good,' blah blah blah.

We have a small bug at the end (after a 3-part interview and correctly testing previous questions), but the interviewer basically says, 'That's fine, I get this approach and it makes sense.'

At around 30 minutes in, the interviewer says we're almost out of time (even though the interview started late) and asks if I have any questions.

I get a rejection the next day, woohoo.

Honestly, if you're going to have interviewers like this, just use HackerRank with a testing suite. No collaboration, uninterested interviewer who basically said everything looked good.

Technical / Coding