Most interviewers forget why they entered the conversation in the first place

One time, the interviewer got offended when I asked for his introduction after I was done with mine. He was like, you want my introduction, my introduction? I was like yes, if that's fine.

I was once interviewed for one of the Biggest product companies(won't reveal the name). HR mentioned they'd take 3 technical rounds, 1 managerial. After the 1st Technical round, they decided to take 3 more technical rounds which made it 4. I cleared all of them.
At the managerial round, the interviewer seemed so much in authority, that he first asked me technical questions again, and then some managerial questions. It was only 1 question that I fumbled a bit and got rejected. (That's what the HR mentioned as the reason). It was so frustrating, and moreover, during all the technical rounds, either the interviewers used to cancel, or joined late because THEY HAD LOADS TO WORK TO COMPLETE. It took around a month to complete all these rounds and a rejection at the end. 😑

I had an experience with one of the company where they scheduled an interview for Tuesday. I prepared and joined the interview dressing up on time. 2 mins before the start hr called they are rescheduling it to friday due to an interviewer is sick. I agreed with him. Later joined the friday call even if i had lots of deliverables to be submitted by EOD. I waited around 5 mins on the call and no one joined. HR called again saying that the interviewer is busy with some client call.
I thought Don’t our time has any value. He want me to reschedule the interview again to Monday same time. I told him no need i’m not going frwd with your opportunity. I almost got a bad impression of the company.

I feel like you can create an entire thread of interview horror stories. I'll start.
Once I was interviewing for a company, an up and coming place with an office in what would be considered the heart of Bangalore for what would be an in person interview. I arrived there on time and found out much to my annoyance that they were having 25 people interview for the same position on the same day.
Annoyance is at 10% When i head to the reception of this place the receptionist asks me for a print out of my resume. I'm like wtf? I sent it to your HR, why would you ask me for a printout in 2024, Annoyance is at 15% Then after getting a printout, she hands me a form and a pen and asks me to fill out information from my resume into the form again. Annoyance is at 30% With no proper place to sit in this place because:

1. They called 25 people.
2. Their reception area is basically just a sofa and an aquarium, with people already sitting waiting for their interviews. Most of us had to sit on the stairwell.
   Annoyance is at 45% I arrived at this place at the proper time which was 11:00 am sharp. Now having to sit at what is a dark, empty, dirty stairwell having to rewrite my information onto a piece of paper with no pad i realise that almost 2 hours pass and there is no sign of them calling me. I'm hungry. I didn't expect that I'd have to pack lunch. Now caught between a rock and a hard place my annoyance is at 60% Sunk cost fallacy is at an all time high.
   My hunger and thirst is keeping me there out of spite. I'm hoping that at least this interview better be worth me not eating lunch. Finally they decided to call me inside at almost 3 pm I go in. The HR who decided to set up this interview in the first place asks for both the sheets, my filled application and resume. She decides to ask me to explain my resume, again. She was the one who decided to call me in the first place, and set everything up. Annoyance is at 75% She has me wait out again. Has another engineer from the company come in. I've been prepared for my technical round for days.
   This dude decides to ask me to explain my resume to him again, asks me no technical questions and sends me on my merry way.
   I am 100% annoyed, cursing that this company goes under the entire way back home. Gorge on an indulgent late lunch
   The HR doesn't let me know the status of my application until I decide to grace her with my messages.
   0 professionalism, 100% of my day wasted.
   TL;DR - Do your vetting before calling applicants and don't waste my time.

I interviewed for MathCo (I'm not gonna shy away from taking the company name). The Interviewer asked Frontend related questions for the Backend role.

I've had many bad interview experiences. Many cases were the interviewers were rude and intimidating.

Asking personal questions like married or not, have kids or not

Would like to add 1 point to a bad interview experience. Idk why they ask us to turn on our camera esp when they don't turn on theirs. Feels weird. Also I just had an interview with a big q-commerce startup z.... . The interviewer was quite arrogant and got offended when I immediately started with Hi X , how are you?
He probably wanted to be the one to ask that question. But idk rest of the interview went well.

Luckily have never faced such interviews. Then again, have never had many interviews. Here's the log anyway.

• College, reject. First interview of life. Cleared all the technical rounds. HM round - fumbled on all the answers cause I don't see myself anywhere after 5 years

• College, reject. Brilliant interview experience. Company conducted pair programming sessions. However my code wasn't good enough apparantly.

• College, select. Easy questions, smooth sailing. First offer.

Out of college experiences

• Select. Got a nice lady who got impressed with my skills somehow. They cut it short after two rounds. She later was my tech lead for next 3 years.

• Reject. Tech rounds went well. Screwed up in System design.

• Reject. Fumbled up when interviewer asked me to implement recursive approach instead of iterative.

• Reject. Couldn't solve questions in tech screen. Rusty.

• Select. Even though the HM round was a disaster, they decided to go forward with me.

• Reject. After second round, got rejected probably because I didn't focus much on product and customer metrics while designing system.

• In progress / Select: although all the rounds were hit and miss, they are proceeding with rolling out an offer 🤞🏻

come on, we teach our kids to be powerful rather than being successful, we take pride in the amount of money we earn rather than how happily we live. what do you expect from such a society? stop complaining, everyone here is a part of the problem.