I applied online and received an email from a recruiter to schedule an online coding interview with a Director.

The director was very unpleasant. We directly jumped to the coding exercise, which consisted of one question.

The question was quite ambiguous and vague, without any use cases, and therefore required a lot of assumptions to be made.

I successfully covered all cases, but the interviewer told me that I should have made all assumptions before starting so that we could avoid back and forth. They were asking me to come up with real-life use cases instead of just providing one.

Well, I believe when asking a very open-ended question, one should be able to discuss and write the solution rather than have everything pre-planned.

At the end of the call, the interviewer told me, "Good luck on the job search."

Such a waste of time. Seriously, this is not a proper tech company, and I am glad I didn't get through.

One word to describe it: Unprofessional!

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