I’ll start with a recent one. Interviewed with Comcast(CAP team in Philly) and thought it went well, was told I’d get feedback in a few days. Followed up, and they said another week, followed up again then was told another week. They said that because they were hiring multiple positions for the org at the same time, it was taking longer to get feedback. Was finally told four weeks later that they had extended offers to other candidates, but wouldn’t be extending further offers until early July to stagger the start dates. They said to keep in touch then if I was still interested. Yeah, no thanks.
I interviewed at apple without prepping and got asked a dynamic programming questions by Tushar Roy himself. I bombed it super hard, plus I was really awkward with the hiring manager. Walked out after lunch.
Uber. The hiring manager drank my bottle of water while I was writing things on the white board. It was really awkward when I turned around and saw that. He put the bottle down saying *it is your water* with a stone face. It creeper me out. I tried to move on with the interview. Pretending nothing happened. Two rounds later I got walked out by hr telling me they did not see any signal that I would fit.
Google - recruiting coordinator sent me my interview time started 45 minutes earlier than it did. Then my first interviewer didn't show up. I spent an hour and a half in the lobby waiting to start. VEVO - one interviewer was borderline abusive. He asked a question and if I got it wrong he responded with "why would you even think that". If I didn't respond fast enough he would ask "what do you think", which forced me to say what I was thinking and he'd attack my incomplete thoughts. After three times of this cycle I walked out. Facebook - interviewer didn't understand my approach so he physically moved me away from the white board to lecture me on an approach I was already making. Three times. After this he made me second guess myself and then proceeded to lecture me on prepping more. Even though my approach was the same as his.
Sounds like you were unlucky. What a bunch of dickheads.
To be fair I rightfully failed Google + VEVO interviews. But the more you interview in the industry the more you realize most people aren't properly trained
Microsoft assholes: probability questions + trapping rainwater + other LC hards.
Phone call with Microsoft in Jan, asked a brain teaser. I solved it. Then ghosted one month and told that I did really well blahblahblah. Then 4 months (!) later I receive an email letting me know that I did well but all positions are filled!
My worst two were both during a Google interview Systems design interview turned into me spending the entire time just doing basic arithmetic on the white board because he wouldn’t let me use a calculator. I think I only spent 2 minutes of the interview doing the system design portion. During a coding interview the interviewer interviewer kept using the wrong words to describe then problem. Spent about 5 minutes trying to clarify what the ask was. Then while writing up the code on the board, a character pattern search question they kept trying to get me to use regex when the problem would be much better solved with searching specific, known character positions.
Cisco dude asked me my religion. Then HR called me on Saturday to give me a job offer (voicemail). On Monday the email with the official offer was a different role than I had in my VM from HR. Needless to say I gladly turned down the job offer.
Pretty sure that's straight up illegal.
100% sure it is, but what are you going to do about it
Apple: manager came in looked me made an excuse why he needed to leave. Interview was basically over. Twitch: interviewer told me I was an idiot
That's the most egregious form of bias that I've heard of (@Apple).
Yeah, totally not legal. I was once rejected that way in an apartment-share interview, but never heard of that in a professional setting. If that happened to me I’d be calling the attorney-general’s office about that manager. Unless of course I were in the situation so many are in: needing visa sponsorship. Still, ugh!
Linkedin. All interviewers seemed like they wanted me to fail. Only nice interview was with an EM. I got offers from G and FB, so it did not matter that much, but comparing the interview experience, LinkedIn was the worst ever.
Adobe, the interviewer went deep into physics (high school level). Then with 10 mins left, asked me to solve the N Queen problem.
Any time I'm ghosted after an interview. Just fucking tell me you don't think it's a good fit. Hurts badly, especially when the company isn't even top notch.
Ghosting is the worst
Awhile back I went to amazon super prepared. On the flight over I started to feel a sore throat coming on. By morning of onsite it was full blown stuffy head and sore throat. Felt really shitty and could barely talk. I thought it would be a pain to cancel especially since I was taking a couple days of work to travel to Seattle (was living on East coast then). So I went ahead and did the onsite. Crushed first couple rounds. Kinda brain froze on the bar raiser but at least solved it better than brute force. I realized the optimal soln as I walked out. Felt like my brain was operating at 1/10th power. Yeah anyway ghosted. Even though I flew out for an onsite. I mean who the fuck does that? But it seems like I get an email from Amazon recruiters to interview every other week or so since. Nope!