I was referred to Newfold Digital by a friend, and a recruiter reached out to me for an interview. The process started with a screening interview where the recruiter asked basic questions about my experience to assess my fit for the role. They mentioned there would be only one technical round, and a decision would be made afterward. During the technical interview, two engineering managers joined the call. The first question was a programming challenge, and the second was specific to React. However, I was not informed beforehand that I would need to code locally or on a platform of my choice, which I learned only during the interview. I opted for JSFiddle for JavaScript and CodeSandbox for React. Setting up CodeSandbox took a few minutes out of my one-hour interview, which I found significant since the evaluation seemed to focus on the speed of arriving at an optimized solution. The interviewers were not very supportive when I was implementing the solution. Unlike my experience with big tech companies, where interviewers typically guide you, here, they interrupted me with irrelevant questions that made me nervous and fumble. The interview process felt rigid and didn't seem to genuinely assess my knowledge. After the interview, I was ghosted by the recruiter for a few weeks. When I followed up, I didn't receive any response, which left a negative impression of the entire process.