Talked with a recruiter over phone then setup a video call with the director of engineering. He was 15 minutes late but called me and apologized. Not a big deal and we did the interview after. I was interested in moving forward after our talk and asked what to expect in the interview process. He told me not to prepare and to only expect questions I already deal with in my current job (aka not leetcode). That was not the case at all. The next interview was with 2 engineers and they gave me a leetcode question. It wasn't hard but poorly explained with a lot of unnecessary details like a whole back story. It could have been 2 sentences max. There were no tests to run my solution against and the test examples in the story given were too simple so I missed an edge case. I caught that towards the end but because we ran out of time I had to explain how I would have fixed it, to which the interviewer said was the correct way. However I later learned that they decided against moving forward because I didn't address the edge case? I even offered to redo it and send it to them later but they gave me no email or contact info to do so. The interviewers themselves were also not prepared. They also showed up 15 minutes late, and we spent about 10 minutes just setting up the environment. I was told they were testing out a new one and I'm not sure why they decided to test it in an interview and not prior. My biggest gripes are being misled about the technical interview and how bad of an indicator it is of someone's technical ability. In real life you can write tests and aren't expected to solve puzzles in 30 minutes without being watched. Speaking of being watched, the only reason there was a second person was so he can shadow the interviewer. He was pretty much silent the entire time which just adds to live coding nerves. They could have just recorded the interview instead and had him watch it later if they need to monitor their employee's performance. Overall it was an awful experience and honestly the worst interview experience I've ever had. Everyone was late, unprepared, and the test was trivial and irrelevant to the actual job.