The interview process is smooth, and the coordinator is great. Everything else is terrible.

First, the interviewing team consists purely of people from one specific Southeast Asian country. This means they would highly unlikely to let anyone other than their own ethnic group pass.

For at least two rounds of interviews, I presented a totally correct, optimal solution, and the interviewers didn't seem to know the optimal solution for the very questions they raised. The problems are not hard at all. If you are a sharp engineer, you don't need to know the answers. Once the interviewee writes the solution on the whiteboard, you should immediately grasp the 'gist' of the implementation.

In my case, rather than understanding the code within one to two minutes, I had to spend fifteen to twenty-five minutes walking through the examples they gave multiple times before they could understand the code. That's how competent the team members are.

I just feel it's very funny that if you 'grow' your team in this ethnically pure fashion, and allow anyone within your group to pass the interview by asking '1+1,' and fail anyone that doesn't belong, how can you build a dynamic, creative team to solve hard problems?

I will seriously think of declining any interview with any company that has a purely one ethnic group on the interviewing team. Their current ethnic composition will clearly tell the interview result before it even happens. That's a total waste of my time.

Simple standard algorithm questions.