I interviewed with a company recently and had a very bad experience. HRs from two different teams contacted me in parallel, and they both wanted me to attend their interviews. They informed me the first round would be a coding round of two hours with two questions on DS and Algo. To my surprise, the senior director joined in the first round and asked me to develop a snake and ladder game in two hours. Even though it was unexpected, I implemented the game with all features in two hours plus some buffer time. He complained I didn't do it the way he wanted me to do it.

After one week, they got back to me to schedule the second round and told me I had passed the first one. This time, HR told me the second round would be a technical discussion on architectures and projects that I had previously worked on. I double-checked with HR that no coding would be there. They confirmed and told me I don't need a laptop for this round as well.

Now for the second round, this guy asked me to create a circle and roll another smaller circle along the circumference of the first circle using HTML and CSS. I had a syntax error for CSS content due to which I got stuck, and the interviewer had no idea too why it was stuck. I politely asked him to help me in places where I am stuck and provide hints if possible because I usually help out when I take interviews as well. This guy was not even ready to utter a word and was very rude. Again, he threw a JavaScript coding round at me asking me to fix a code error. I almost had the fix where I added a setTimeout, and the only step I had to do was change a for loop to a recursion. He could have helped me when I was close enough. But he confused me, diverted me, and ended the discussion abruptly.

I clearly see a huge communication gap between the HRs and interviewers here. They are not friendly enough to help or give some support. Instead, they are trying to pressurize the candidates and diverge the situation. I believe every JavaScript dev can draw circles and spin them off. I don't believe this is the right way to evaluate software architects, and CSS animations are definitely not a showstopper. Problem-solving skills can be tested in a friendly manner too. Maybe weightage can be given to system design or micro front-end architecture design specifications.

There was a snake and ladder game in 2 hours. I had to spin a circle around another circle using CSS animation and fix a bug in a script.