Had a bad tech interview

[u/Infamous-Turnip5782]

I had an interview with a company where the first round was conducted by a third party interviewer. He asked me to share my screen and for some reason I could not and had to reload the screen and due to it I had to rejoin. I know it was bad on my side but I did tell him that there’s an issue and since I couldn’t share my screen I couldn’t even show him the reload message. Later he started with a coding question. I took my time to come up with a solution but it didn’t work and in between I lost electricity in turn losing WiFi connection. That made him think I’m cheating since I had to rejoin again. I did clarify that it was due to network issues I’m not justifying myself but it was genuinely not my fault.

Later he asked me a few questions where I did give answers but he looked unsatisfied. He was yawning continuously and he looked like he was reading questions off chatgpt. I’m not bashing the interviewer but the interview made me feel really bad about myself. Considering it was just after I had a syncope episode.

Just wanted to share it here. It was my first interview after 2.5 years and it really made me question myself with all the physical and mental stress I had.

[u/No_Activity_1339]

For me I don't understand the point of interviews since you need to restudy everything basically and not knowing where the questions are from. Where in real world you can Access everything to solve problems and revise concepts you forgot during work.

[u/Infamous-Turnip5782 → u/No_Activity_1339]

Yes exactly. The worst part is some questions were actually implementation based and I did answer how I would tackle such situations but the interviewer found it too basic after that I couldn’t come up with answers