I interviewed for a role in the DLP team. I was to come to the office for four rounds of interviews after the HM screening.

I had a coding round, which was by far the worst I'd had in a long time. The question wasn't hard. The interviewer allocated 20 minutes for coding, but the first 10 were spent doing the following:

• He asked me to join the Zoom link in the meeting invite. There was no Zoom link.
• He then asked me to join the coding link. The coding link didn't have any way for interviewees to join.

He then asked me to use an IDE and to screen share. He had a solution in mind that he wanted me to implement. I wanted to think about and evaluate the pros and cons of multiple solutions, as this is a principal role and not a junior SDE.

As I was implementing my solution, he kept interrupting me to give feedback every two lines of code and also kept harassing me to finish the implementation within the 20 minutes allocated for coding. At the 40-minute mark, we went on to the second part, which was to write a SQL query. The query involved using a CASE, LEFT JOIN, and a UNION. I proposed the solution on how to construct it, but he complained that the syntax of the CASE and the LEFT JOIN were not correct.

Afterwards, he was supposed to take me to lunch, and he forgot to order my food. I have no idea how organizations allow characters like this to represent the organization to candidates. Horrible, horrible experience!