Applied for a Python Software Engineer role. What followed was one of the most unprofessional interview processes I've experienced.

The initial screening invite was completely empty – no job details, no requirements, nothing about what to expect. Should have been my first warning.

Screening call:

• Interviewer showed up late, then rushed through everything.
• Cut me off constantly, wouldn't let me finish a single answer.
• Asked random technical questions with zero context.
• When I asked about the role or team, got nothing back.
• Felt more like an interrogation than a conversation.

Technical round:

If you look online, you'll see they ask the same three questions to everyone: URL shortener, load balancer, or ledger system. They gave me the URL shortener – pretty telling about their "technical innovation."

Still crushed it though – finished early, wrote full test coverage, used proper design patterns (SOLID principles, strategy pattern), even added multi-threading with locks since they emphasized concurrency. Answered every question they threw at me.

Then got a generic rejection saying I lacked "specific knowledge." What specific knowledge? They never said.

Tried to get actual feedback multiple times. Got an automated email I couldn't even reply to. Asked specific questions about what went wrong – complete silence.

Save yourself the time. This isn't how serious companies run their hiring process.

URL shortener service in Python, with concurrent users.