Maersk Software Engineer interview experience

The topic that came up was Redis, and I remember the interviewer holding the wrong belief about how Redis should be classified—treating it as something other than an in-memory cache. That alone made me uneasy, but what truly made it difficult was the communication dynamic.

As I explained my design choices and walked through my reasoning, the interviewer kept interrupting and misrepresenting what I was proposing instead of actually following my solution. It didn’t feel like a real evaluation of my thinking; it felt like the conversation was being redirected away from my actual answers. By the