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Then it shifted dramatically and became the most uncomfortable interview experience I’d ever had.

In the system design discussion, the interviewer reacted negatively to things I said, including visible reactions when they didn’t like my approach. They also leaned on trick-like questions and challenged assumptions in a way that felt nonsensical to me—like criticizing a detail around hashing an API key when storing it in a database.

I didn’t get an offer. My honest reflection afterward was that the technical content might have been tough either way, but the tone and the way the questions were