While the initial recruiter was nice and kept in contact through the entire process, I found the coding interview pretty silly. It might be fine for fresh grads but to someone with 5 years of experience in the industry it felt hollow. It was a "pair programming" situation where it felt my interviewer was less interested in my thought process and more interested in guiding me toward a solution. Completely stifled my creativity and honestly I just didn't feel like "myself" during the interview. Leading questions threw me off and the final feedback was that I had issues with "troubleshooting." I think in terms of test-driven development and that thought process clearly didn't mesh. The challenge was writing a little code to show a player on a game board. In my experience, I'd start by writing tests for the initial game board displaying correctly.. then write a test for movement.. then hitting the bounds of the gameboard.. etc. But this kind of thinking didn't feel "allowed." Instead I'm trying to keep up with their thought process and "don't worry about edge cases" and whatnot. I don't know.. just surprised how little the interview did to shine a light on my analytical skills. Is it my fault my skills didn't shine through regardless? Sure, I can take accountability there. But I did expect to be given the freedom to be creative. I'd consider this a bullet dodged for sure.