1. A phone screen call came out of nowhere. The caller started making fun of my name and asking technical questions without first asking if I was available to chat.

2. A random call from a Director occurred a month later. He asked if I could come to the office the next day for an on-site interview. I politely told him I could come in a week. I asked if he was from the team that called me earlier. He said yes and only then, after I insisted, did he briefly describe the team in one sentence.

3. Next, a random coding test full of SQL questions was sent to me and assigned by a recruiter. I completed it; it did not test any QA or development skills.

4. On-site interview: From the moment I met the manager (he was a contractor for Visa), I had mixed feelings. Until the very end, when I urged them to talk about their team, they had not introduced anyone. Three random individuals asked me a series of technical/coding questions. There was no discussion about my experience or projects, nor about Visa or their team. They were also clearly not very friendly, which added to my interview nervousness.

The interview covered several topics:

• Palindrome check
• Fibonacci sequence (recursive and iterative)

An extremely random question was asked about file locations and job execution by a remotely dialed-in engineer. Neither I nor the manager in the room understood the question. When I asked for clarification, the remote engineer became irritated and rude, eventually stating he was testing something very basic and I was going into technical detail. I wish he had better communication skills to explain his question without getting angry.

Later, I discovered what he was actually asking, and it felt as though these interviewers had never conducted an interview before. This was followed by general Java questions and a system design question posed by the only normal (non-weird) interviewer I met that day at Visa.