Apple. I actually felt one of the interviewers made me solve a problem coz they themselves weren’t able to solve it in their teams internally. At the end of the interview (this was an on-site during pre-COVID times) , he didn’t even say goodbye. He actually took pictures of my entire solution from the whiteboard and left the room. He also spoke terrible English, had no basic courtesy and was hard to understand. I don’t even know how they hire such people and put them on interview panels.
I don’t solve problems for people in interviews. I will make sure they know I know how to solve it. But I won’t solve it for them explicitly in a way that will help them solve the problem. You gotta pay me for that information. If I don’t get the job, no big deal. Lots of other places I can work.
I had a similar experience with my Google interview a few years back. One interviewer had the audacity to ask for an addition hour at the end of the day so he can “recap”. He took a few pictures of the solutions I wrote on the white board. F* that even more as I didn’t get any offer afterwards. I felt I have been taken advantages of.
Apple for sure. One interviewer actually taunted and said “this is very easy” when I was not able to give her the answer she wanted. Made me decide not to work there at that moment.
Apple all the way. I had a senior director tell me during interviews - intel engineers are bad, I don’t even interview them and waste my team’s time. It’s ok for you to feel this way; but you don’t tell that to someone you are interviewing.
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It’s ok for you to feel this way; but you don’t tell that to someone you are interviewing.
@ltdwench I can’t divulge that, being relatively smaller org in SEG, it will be easily identifiable.