Art of Problem Solving Software Engineer interview experience

After the initial steps, they had me log in and play a kids’ style online puzzle game as part of the process. It was memorable, but it also threw me off.

When the manager followed up, the conversation stayed heavily focused on the puzzle itself and what it represented. I remember thinking that if they wanted to understand fit, they should’ve spent more time on my background and the skills I’d been using, because I didn’t feel like my past work got much traction. That whole tone turned me away from the company, even though I can’t say the process was incompetent—just that it didn’t feel