Interviewer tried to shame me for not trying out his work
An Interviewer was trying to shame me for not trying out his feature of a giant product before the interview. At a very large company, I was sent a link in their resources for how to set up an account and try for free. I tried it last night, it makes me log in thru Another service, and that service makes you put in your payment info. I said F it and tried, but it errored out for paypal and my credit card. So i just watched some youtube videos instead on the product.
After the interview i asked the guy about his blog post about building a feature for the company. I then asked him if it was hard to build a specific part of that feature. He snapped back at me “you did not set up the demo product and test it out, if you did you’d know that it doesnt do that”.
Like fuck, man, sorry i didnt read your blog AND try out your specific feature, myself, after entering my credit card and all that just for a single interview. With people who arent on the team im interviewing for.
I told him that it errored for me on billing and that I tried to set it up, and he said he would note that as a bug, but i felt like he just thought i was lying. Either way, it was very toxic.
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Hope your offer and your decision to join are not pegged on this single experience.
PS: if there was homework involved, try it out ahead of time. Interviewer should have contingency in case you were not setup and ask to reschedule
I guess, since i was asking a question about a specific feature of their application, i do think it makes sense to have played with it before the interview. Thats fair.
Just seems far fetched to assume everyone who asks about your work has tested it?
But yeah i mean the rest of the interview wasnt great so seems like a no button haha