I recently interviewed for a Frontend Engineer role at a tech company, and the experience left me pretty stunned how unprofessionally the interviewer behaved.
During the technical screen, I was asked a series of frontend quiz-style questions. One of them was: “Where does browser rendering happen ?macrotask or microtask?” I answered: “It’s neither. Rendering happens in a separate phase between macrotasks, after all microtasks have been processed.”
To my surprise, the interviewer laughed in a mocking way and told me I was wrong, claiming that rendering happens during macrotasks. He added, “I can’t believe you don’t know this,” and kept laughing. It felt incredibly disrespectful, especially for what should have been a professional setting.
Still, I stayed calm and focused, hoping to redeem the conversation during the coding challenge. The task was to implement Promise.all, which is something I’ve practiced and solved many times before.
As I was explaining my approach about resolving each promise in the array and returning one wrapper promise. He interrupted again with comments like “I wouldn’t do it this way,” but gave no constructive feedback or context. When I asked clarifying questions, he just laughed again and shook his head without giving any answers.
Eventually, he asked “Why are you resolving twice?” which I wasn’t. I explained my logic but he shook his head, laughed, and said “I’ve seen enough.”
Ten minutes later, I got the rejection email.
I’ve honestly never had an interviewer act this way, and while I know it’s probably a bullet dodged, it still left me feeling disappointed and disrespected especially in a job market this tough, where people are preparing for weeks just to get one interview.
I checked my solutions right after the interview, and my solution was right.
Just wanted to vent and share in case others have gone through similar things. If you have how did you move past that feeling of being laughed at or mocked during something as stressful as an interview?
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