This was for a contract-to-hire position at Sony Playstation which was going to full remote. I was not prepped by the non-Sony recruiter at all that there was going to be a coding test. It was about 1 hour long initial phone call where 30 minutes was talking and 30 minutes was a coding exercise. The phone call was suppose to be with a director or manager of engineering but instead I got on the phone call with two guys that look like they just woke up wearing almost pajama like clothes with heavy accents + choppy audio. Keep in mind, I currently have 9.5 years of experience. Once the typical talking of introductions goes by for the first 30 minutes, they gave me a coding test. I solved the coding test within 10-15 minutes. Ran the Submit and it passed all test cases. During my problem solving, I recognized the logic and what I needed to do so I asked them if I could look up the appropriate regex to filter out part of the problem since I didnt remember the exact regex. They said ya that's fine. After doing that, I solved the rest of the test very quickly and searched another thing I had to reference at some point. (this is typical software engineering at the work place, we cant remember everything) One of the interviewers started bugging me asking me if I knew what the regex was actually doing. I said not exactly but based on my search, it is doing what I needed and I told them that if I need to know all the details I can easily lookup how the regex was built and break it down for you. So I did that and proved it to him. Then I started getting nit picked about how I didnt check for nulls. I wasnt sure why they did this since I passed all tests cases and most coderpad/hackerrank type problems don't require that. Overall, the interview felt kind of weird. I eventually got a decline with no feedback or response even though I showed them I could solve and code quickly and communicate as well.