3 technical rounds mostly focusing on basics/fundamentals, resume discussion, coding. Questions were asked from the very basics like css, react props. Coding was pretty normal (leetcode - medium level). Resume discussion was interesting as they wanted to know more about the usecases i have solved which included e2e testing.

The recruiter called me about the position and stated that the interviewer is a bit eccentric and has turned down over 100 applicants. They stated that the interviewer did not want someone who was a framework UI developer. I thought that was odd though, but said I'll take the interview, mostly out of curiosity. They then stated that the interviewer loved my last name for some reason. A day later I begin the interview and he asked me about media query's. He basically wanted me to know from memory what the syntax is for a media query, I did not know off the top of my head. Then he asked me which order of a media query would execute first if the user was a mobile user. I gave a good answer, but he wanted something different. Then he got to the real question on his mind: How would you architect an elevator? This was such an open-ended question that no one could possibly know the answer to. You would just have to shotgun out a bunch of ideas and hope that they answer the question. I started with blueprints, shaft size, elevator size, dimensions... He sounded frustrated with me because those weren't even close to the answers he was looking for. So he guided me to discuss just the elevator. I said 4 walls, a floor and a ceiling with some buttons. Then he asked me what an elevator needs to function and what types of variables would be needed. Again, very open-ended as there is no concrete answer. After it was all said and done he asked if I had any questions and I asked how I did. He said he was disappointed that my answers weren't very good since I was a designer as well as an engineer. He had higher hopes for me. The interviewer did a poor job of conducting the interview and themselves and this reflects very poorly upon Quinstreet/Modernize and I hope they recognize that if they want people to work for them they need to ask questions that people actually have answers for.