Monticello Asset Management interview questions

This was the most disrespectful and unprofessional interview process I’ve experienced in my career. The interviewer was ten minutes late and appeared unprepared and condescending. When it became clear he hadn’t reviewed my resume, I asked whether he had a background in analytics or engineering. He said no, then declined to answer questions about the role’s responsibilities. When I mentioned that my previous role involved people analytics, the interviewer asked, “You mean like counting how many mixed-race people are at a company?” It felt deeply inappropriate and seemed to be when the conversation entered outright hostile territory. He stopped asking about my professional background and grew fixated on the business model of the previous employer. I got the sense that the interviewer has some interesting views. When he said that he “didn’t see the value proposition,” I tried to explain that I’m a person, not a business, and that my value proposition was as a data engineer with a decade of experience. He abruptly cut me off, said “This is just awful,” and hung up. I try to give others the benefit of the doubt that they might just having a bad day, but the wire-to-wire unpleasantness of the call made that grace hard to extend.

Interviewer felt weirdly hostile right off the bat. He also used words like "there is no 9-5" and "I need someone that grinds" which to me were red flags that they probably work you to death.