Applied for SWE positions but never heard back for those positions. Recruiter contacted me for a Data Engineer position because I had a little experience in it. It was a pretty bad experience overall. 1) She didnt book the meeting room long enough so she got kicked out of the conference room and was running around trying to find a room and was at some point panting because she needed to go up so many stairs 2) Didnt have any technical background whatsoever so she asked me to elaborate on everything and speak slow so she could write it all down 3) Tested me with 5 questions but was never told it was going to be technical. 3 were easy 2 of them I didnt know the technical term for but have done it in my previous job 4) Kind of talked to me condescendingly because in my new role I am not a Data Engineer but a SWE backend 5) Didnt offer to look up my old applications (said she has no idea and cant find it in the system) and by old I mean like 2 weeks ago I submitted for 2 positions

The technical round hit me with a classic array manipulation problem: moving zeroes to the end without disrupting the order of non-zero elements. As I tackled it, I felt a wave of familiarity wash over me; I had just practiced a similar challenge on PracHub. The rest of the interview followed a straightforward path, with some easy behavioral questions sprinkled in. Overall, it felt very easy, but I wasn’t quite the right fit for what they needed, so I didn’t receive an offer.