mthree Software Engineer interview experience

Then I was asked to open an online compiler and write something on the spot, including sorting/searching. I started with merge sort in Java when the flow suddenly paused; the interviewer stopped me and asked me to come back to the screen. After that, it shifted to a quick self-rating check, where I had to score myself on skills like MySQL and Java on a 0–5 scale.

The whole thing felt extremely lightweight and fast—more like a quick verification than a deep technical evaluation. I didn’t get much further than that, and afterward the process went silent for months with no updates. Looking