Tech Interview Horror Stories

Have you ever been hired by a company you refused to do the coding interview for?

In my case I didn't do a satisfactory initial call with the recruiters to ask them what the interview was going to be about, the level of the folks asking the questions and the possibility of doing it over a few days. They pulled the "we're excited to move forward..." trick, without saying too much about having to talk for 6 hours to very junior devs.

An interesting thing happened to me when I applied for an internship with your employer. I got a call, saying that I would have an interview few days days later even gave me the exact time. Come the day of interview, I got no call. And no response to follow up emails/calls. So, when somebody from hackerrank comments on the hiring process, it is a bit vexing.

Exactly the same for me. I was approached several times, tried the interview up to the second stage, but it was just horrible. Same as you explained. I also said, no thank you. Not any other technical company I interviewed with was THAT bad. They should really fire all their hiring personal.

I had the exact same experience. 30 minutes paired leetcode type test of moderate difficulty. My solution seemed algorithmically sound and efficient, but the test wasn't passing at the buzzer. The guy failed me and we said our goodbyes. As soon as we're done, I slowly look at the problem without the distraction and see that I just need to swap two variables. I email the guy back barely a minute after we hang up, explaining that I just figured what was missing. He emails me that he'

Sorry to hear about your experience. I'm at twilio and we recently started a hiring guild to tackle this exact problem. Most of the members of the guild on the technical side are there specifically to address bad interview experiences like yours. We are focusing on improving process, questions, and candidate experience. We are moving the technical portion towards work sample like questions and ensuring the interview focuses on what you bring to the board as opposed to someone's pet que

after wasting the time to write the sample application, my interviewer refused to even look at at it. I have seen similar stories posted here. would not recommend.

Why would I take the time to interview with a company that can't take the time to interview me?(Also, the Get Started button seems to do nothing for me in Firefox. I guess that's one of the technical issues?)

yep, somewhat similar experiencemy interviewer was 15 minutes late to the call, didn't even know what position i was applying for, didn't ask me at all about the assignment they made me do, then ended my call early because they had to be somewhere. already knew i didn't get the job but didn't even get back to me until a month later.person still works at uber. pretty high up now. i guess i'm glad i didn't get farther given all that came out afterwards.

How did people like this even make it to the interview rounds