The interview process at PlayShifu was long, unstructured, and exploitative in the name of an interview. It started with a technical discussion, followed by an assignment on tile and knob detection using OpenCV. I submitted the assignment four times based on their repeated feedback. After every discussion, the interviewer kept saying, “Submit the assignment, we’ll see,” instead of giving clear evaluation criteria or feedback. After that, I had a one-hour live coding round where I explained my entire approach and code line by line. During the same round, they suddenly gave me a second video (not part of the original problem statement) and asked me to modify my code to make it work for that too. Even after completing this additional task, they again asked for another live coding round on the same assignment. The process dragged from October 8th to October 23rd, with no structure, clarity, or respect for the candidate’s time. It clearly felt like they were exploiting candidates for free technical work in the name of interviews. What’s worse, during the initial phone screening, the HR explicitly stated that the process would have only three rounds — 1) a technical discussion, 2) an assignment, and 3) an interview with the manager. The interview process kept expanding arbitrarily with additional tasks and rounds, showing a complete lack of professionalism, clarity, and respect for candidates’ time and effort.