HelloFresh Backend Engineer interview experience

From the very beginning, the HR representative said he wouldn’t turn on his camera, and I followed along with the same setup, which made it harder to stay focused and engaged.

The interview felt repetitive and oddly irrelevant, like answers were being delivered from a script rather than based on what I was saying. Even the notes were taken by an AI bot, which added to the feeling that there wasn’t much human connection. On top of that, he mentioned the expectation to work from the office three days a week, and since that didn’t match what I was looking for, the negative result didn’t