I'm describing the first technical interview, which is (supposed to be) a pair programming session. It takes 45 minutes and done on zoom & hackerrank. The task is relatively simple, but the setup is misleading and the timeframe is unnecessarily short. The pair programming felt more like being observed and pushed towards a direction every now and then. I've been communicating my ideas, but never received feedback to those, except if there was an issue with them. In the code, every missing name was called TODO, from which I assumed all of them would be the same type. Unfinished methods had "TODO... args" attributes, so I assumed all of them would take arrays of the same type. Thanks to these, I started in an entirely wrong direction. Yes, we cleared it up, but the time spent was gone already... I didn't receive any feedback as to how I did, even though I was asked to provide some. Not really fair.