Motive Software Engineer interview experience

The recruiter was friendly and helpful, and then I had a phone conversation that was strange in a very specific way. I was asked a few technical-ish questions, but the way the interviewer talked made it clear he didn’t know as much as I did.

Then he asked me to write code verbally over the phone, line by line, for traversing a binary search tree. I had never heard of “verbal programming” as an evaluation method, and it felt like it would either reward memorization or just be impossible to judge objectively.

Eventually I didn’t pass, but honestly I was relieved by the result because the