Tech(x) Software Engineer interview experience

I was told not to mention my salary with them, which already felt odd to me.

A week later, the engineers did a video call where the focus was an algorithm challenge that didn’t feel connected to my background or how I thought through problems. What really soured it for me was the way it was handled: one engineer copied the problem from a PDF into a coding environment, but the formatting got broken. They then had to fix it and explain it while I was already trying to work through it. I understood the problem, but I couldn’t solve it within 30 minutes because the context kept shifting.

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