A recruiter reached out to me. The first round was a phone screen to solve an algorithm question with google doc. Then I went onsite. It was 4 back to back algorithm solving on a whiteboard. No time was given for lunch. By the time I got to the 4th round, I was on a hungry stomach, it was 2 pm, and have been whiteboarding for 3 hours. I asked them why they chose a certain technology rather than another, none of them can give a clear answer other than everyone else uses it. One of the interviewers could not tell the difference between Java’s characteristic and what’s available in other languages. He seemed appalled that things like queues and stacks are just arrays in other languages. Another interviewer asked a whiteboard algorithm question that he didn't even have a deep understanding of. Only remembers one way of solving the problem. As a company with products that caters mostly to women (cosmetics subscription) surprisingly only the most junior dev is a woman and seems to not involved in any decision making in the product. I understand that interviewing takes away from everyone's work, but it seems like the senior engineer and managers have given zero thought into this.