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My worst interview ever was my first interview fresh out of college. After the initial phone screen, they asked me to drive 2 hours to their office to give me a "code challenge."

The challenge was to spend 4 hours writing a simple rest API for a blog type thing, but the catch was to not use any existing libraries for data access and instead write an entirely database agnostic DAL. Then after I finished they sat me in a conference room with 3 of their engineers and the CEO to just tear apart my code.
For a JUNIOR position to someone fresh out of college.

I guess I defended it well, because they asked to continue the process l, but after that I found a different position.

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  • 8
    Good for you. Sounds like they were out of their depth or wanted a cheap workhorse.

    Either way, bullet dodged.
  • 4
    On paper the teardown doesn't sound that bad ("sounds" like feedback), but I'm assuming the tone was harsh and unfriendly since you've mentioned it here.
  • 3
    @Ison yup, it felt less like a code review and more like a roast
  • 1
    Thats really lame. Imagine being a higher up and roasting a potential junior hire. Honestly the joke is on them because they were probably super insecure about their own skills.
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