I underwent two rounds of interviews and was shocked at the attitude of both interviewers.

In the first, there was an ego complex/attitude from the interviewer regarding code style. The interviewer's expressions of disapproval were clear throughout the process. I presumed it was because they moved to Rippling from an elite New York hedge fund and were importing that behavior.

The second interview, the interviewer simply pasted the question into the online code editor and remained silent (physically and literally). They simply sat and watched for the entire hour.

Several clarifying questions went unanswered (they said nothing, made no obvious facial expressions, and left it as awkward silence), so the only direction was to self-lead the interview and mention all assumptions made out loud.

At the end of the interview, they mentioned that the solution wasn't extensible enough for the initial problem.

The general engineering culture must be a dumpster fire if this is the average interviewing experience across multiple people.

Given a list of employee object records with performance review scores and an associated organization hierarchy, find the employee or manager with the highest average score.