Received Linked in message from a recruiter, After discussing they had arranged a virtual interview. Didn't get to next round of interview. It was a 40 minute session, interviewer arrived 15 minutes late, and just bombarded with hot terms and jargons.

A panelist joined and asked me to write code using Notepad instead of an IDE. She then proceeded to ask Java questions and gave three separate coding problems to be solved in that format. The expectation appeared to be memorization of Java Stream APIs and syntax rather than problem-solving or real-world development practices. This approach felt impractical, as modern development relies heavily on IDEs for productivity, readability, and correctness. The interview seemed more focused on recalling APIs/Methods Name/Inbuilt Methods by memory than evaluating how a developer actually writes, debugs, and maintains code in a real production environment. Small advice please stop copying big MNCs which take notepad based interviews, if you still want then how about you start with salary compensation ?