Horrible experience, never have I ever had such a disheartening interview. It is possible that the candidate does not know some things, but there is a way to convey it kindly. Being condescending, rude and cutting short the interview is something I've never experienced, even though I was not far off from the answers. The job was not even for a senior position.
I applied online. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems
Interview
The first interview went straight into a technical assessment. Began with questions about my background, followed by a variety of coding exercises. Coding exercises were probably about leetcode easy to medium difficulty.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself Explain more about what you did at your previous role Describe what data structures you learned about, what algorithms you learned about
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cadence Design Systems in May 2023
Interview
Video call with an engineer. Starts of with asking for a short introduction of yourself. After that followed a series of random questions on C++. Lots of cherry-picked questions and no real type of questions that try to gauge if your able to reason about different things just "do you know about X, Y and Z?". After giving through answers on like 90% of the questions I got a "you dont know the STL library well enough" because I did't remember by heart the name of the function that sets the capacity on a std vector. Super weird given that I answered all his other questions on STL containers as well. I'd say don't waste your time, this interview process is unprofessional and the person that interviewed me was unprofessional as well.