Very messy interview process.

Recruiter screen is good.

Then have to do IQ test which is easy.

Move on to supposedly a 1 hour coding screen. Instead it's system design.

Then onsite with 1 hour behavioral, 2 hours coding and trivial questions, 1 hour supposedly system design.

The supposedly system design is instead a project deep dive and experience questions about weird situations that you would not have run into given proper systems architecture. Thus I could not answer the questions.

Interviewers were very upfront with shortcomings of the company, which was a bit weird but appreciated.

I would have given this a neutral rather than negative experience had the prep material been more accurate.

How did you deal with this thing that results from bad architecture choices?