It was just 1 person because the tech lead couldn’t be there. They asked me a standard LC question. They kept interrupting me when I tried to explain my reasoning and just told me I was wrong and it should be like X Y Z. They asked me the time complexity to access an element in a set. I told them O(1) average/expected time complexity and O(n) worst case. They told me I was wrong because I had an array and I need to check each element, I told them my set uses a hash function to map elements, without letting me finish they said I needed to use a map. They’d also keep talking while asking multiple different questions without letting me answer the questions. Like what do you do when you have a dumbass interviewer like this. I just went with whatever they said with little pushback.
company?
T3 tech company.
You are a moron.
Happened once for me. I shared my screen and pulled up API docs because he wouldn’t stop arguing with me. Shut him up completely and I ended up getting that job.
A lot of shit heads in this industry bc they snuck in solving leetcode questions tagged for their company that they saw before their interview so they got lucky, but don’t truly know fundamentals. Leetcode ruined SWE.
leetcode just highlighted how absurd it is to ask puzzles to get a job
by memorizing the solution before the interview, they've reduced their interview runtime to O(1) , but at the memory cost of O(L) where L is all leetcode problems. works as long as you assume your interviewer will ask a problem from L.
Calling someone a methhead because you didn’t do well on the interview is exactly why you aren’t going to get the job
Are you indian? Maybe they just hate you.
lol on the set thing
Email this feedback to HR and HM.
Oh yeah they also left the interview in the midst of me solving an LC question for 10 minutes lol.