This is my go-to story for bad interviews. This was one of the worst hiring processes I've gone through with a company. I've been given the advice that if there are too many steps to jump through when applying to a company, they don't know what they're doing (with exceptions of course). For EAI Technologies, I went through a 6-step process described below until I got rejected. After submitting my resume, I got asked to perform a SparkHire interview. They asked three questions in text form (no video on their end) that were generic questions like what my hobbies are and what website would I describe. I thought the 1 min time limit was way too little, so I sent a follow-up email elaborating on my points with screenshots. I was then asked for a phone interview where I learned more about the company as a whole; for example, I learned that the company only consists of 30 people. They continued to the next step, and I was asked for a 1 hour webcam technical interview with two related employees. One of them remained quiet during the majority of the interview, and the other one, in my opinion, should never be allowed to run interviews. It started innocently with him asking what design courses I had taken for about 5 min, like whether I had taken a course on fonts. "Sorry if you put this on your resume, I don't read resumes because everyone lies on them". Regardless of the validity of this statement, he proceeded to spend (no exaggeration) 10 minutes of my interview time ranting about how people lie on their resumes. At one point he even made a point of saying "I don't trust anyone". Once he got that off his chest, we went over what technologies and languages I am familiar with and my willingness to learn new ones for this job. Then he got on another tangent about how much the 40 hour work week will drain your soul, how all the new hires come in optimistic and then become incredibly burnt out after 4 weeks, how "you couldn't get anyone around here to work after hours". The interview finally wrapped up, and they somehow liked me enough to move forward with the process. They assigned me the task of evaluating Yelp's user experience as a take-home problem due in 3 days. I wrote up several pages for it, and I got an email an hour after submitting saying they wanted to move forward in the process again (did they even read it?). The next step was a webcam interview with the company's CEO as well as two personality tests, if you could even call it that. One of the tests was the Predictive Index ("pick adjectives you identified with"), and the other was the PLI Assessment ("solve as many of these 50 questions in 12 minutes"). The interview with the CEO was pleasant but ultimately not very informative as this felt like my first phone interview with them but with a different gentleman on the other end. We talked about my background as well as the company and its history. A week later, I got an email that I was rejected for the position. It came as a huge relief, as I had fallen in love with this particular job position but this whole "process" left a bitter, unmotivated taste in my mouth.