I was reached out to by a recruiter for a position in Amsterdam. Shortly after, I had a phone interview scheduled.

That was my first phone coding interview, and it went terribly unpleasant. First off, the interviewer went almost completely silent. Every time I asked for details about the task, the answer was “do as you like.” He was constantly typing something, and I didn’t feel he was in any way engaged in the conversation. After I finished coding, he said, “ok, fine,” and quickly moved to another stage.

I didn’t feel welcomed. I didn’t feel he actually cared about my solution. It looked like he made some opinion on me in the first 5 minutes of the call, and then my solution didn’t matter at all to him, so he went straight to the report even before I started coding.

I’ve had many other interviews at Credit Suisse, Google, and Facebook, but this one is the worst.

Write a program that takes a configuration file as input and builds dependencies.