New Relic Software Engineer interview experience

During the interview, the interviewer cut me off while I was introducing my experience, and the tone shifted into time pressure instead of listening through my reasoning.

The technical portion started with a DSA problem where I was instructed to pursue an optimal solution. I began with brute force to think through, but the interviewer interrupted and then asked me to code the brute-force approach itself. As I was trying to reason toward the optimal path, I got distracted with trivial questions and didn’t feel like I had enough space to work. I was also repeatedly pulled toward Java specifics