The interviews themselves were okay, if not long. The process took almost three months. At the final stage, I was rejected without so much as a thankyou or any communication outside of the external recruiter. No feedback was ever given, which is surprising as every interviewer was positive and mentioned it would be nice to work together (foretelling a "yes" from them).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is a time you had a conflict with your manager and how did you handle or resolve it?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Playco
Interview
Was recruited through Exentive, their recruiting agency. After a brief exchange with two of their HR staff, I had an interview with one of their engineers.
we did a coderpad interview that didn't go very well, I wasn't used to coderpad's environment and ended up taking a large chunk of time trying to get situated around writing tests. This obviously exasperated the interviewer, who didn't really ask me any questions or talk to me through the interview whatsoever.
They then ghosted me completely. This definitely doesn't seem like a professional workplace.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Please explain the Multi-Level Dijkstra routing algorithm.