My process felt like an implementation marathon. I went through many coding-focused rounds, and it eventually became tiring and even boring instead of engaging. There were also behavioral and debugging rounds, and the debugging session was the most excruciating part for me.
Some interviewers were good, but others turned off their cameras and stayed silent throughout the coding rounds. That made it hard to feel like the interaction was genuinely collaborative. Even the work itself was described in a way that sounded unpleasant to me. It seemed boring enough to make me question the ethics of what they were building.
I didn’t receive an offer, and I left fairly convinced that I wouldn’t want to work there even if I had gotten one. The hardest part wasn’t just the difficulty. It was the combination of the grind, the lack of engagement, and the mismatch between how the role was presented and what I wanted from a team.
Location: United States. Overall feedback: Negative. Offer status: No offer.
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