I'm describing the first technical interview, which is (supposed to be) a pair programming session. It takes 45 minutes and is done on Zoom & HackerRank.

The task is relatively simple, but the setup is misleading and the timeframe is unnecessarily short. The pair programming felt more like being observed and pushed towards a direction every now and then. I communicated my ideas, but never received feedback on them, except if there was an issue.

In the code, every missing name was called TODO, from which I assumed all of them would be the same type. Unfinished methods had "TODO... args" attributes, so I assumed all of them would take arrays of the same type. Thanks to these, I started in an entirely wrong direction. Yes, we cleared it up, but the time spent was already gone...

I didn't receive any feedback as to how I did, even though I was asked to provide some. Not really fair.

I had to work on a codebase with a model class, a service interface, and a third class with some business logic based on the other two. There were some missing names and logic. The purpose of the interface and the business logic class were provided in Javadoc-style comments.