I was fully prepared to love them, given the phone interview.
In-person was bizarre from beginning to end.
First person kept asking questions about a completely different profession. I am a full stack developer but he would simply not quit asking about server logs. For about 40 minutes. I kept answering correctly, since I am very experienced with servers even though this was a developer position.
His replies were "OK, but what if you couldn't do that?" So I would give another alternative. "OK, but what if you couldn't access the server that way?" Finally, it comes out that the secret password was "Logly". I was supposed to guess that they had outsourced their server log storage to Logly, and that I was supposed to check for server problems there.
Not one single programming question; nothing about javascript, react, browsers, the DOM, nothing. The secret password was "Logly".
Second person had personally come up with this flawed algorithm for sorting arrays. I was supposed to be in such awe of it that I was to imitate this glorious algorithm in code on the whiteboard. It was 20 minutes into this torture that I pretty much gave up.
Then, people who had seemed great on the phone turned out to be just good at hiding their insincerity. In person, you could tell.
