[cableshaft]

I don't remember what all of them were, but I specifically remember one of them had the words "Toll Booth" in it, like "Toll Booth Blah", where blah is the key word I can't remember. It's some networking/communication concept, I think. The phone interview person had a fairly difficult accent too so I don't think I even heard the whole answer.

I've only ever encountered the term once online since. I just tried to Google for it again and I can't find the write combo of terms to find it ("toll booth networking? no.... toll booth computer science? no.....")

So I tried to answer that question with what happens on a concept level, and the person on the line said "No. The answer is 'Toll Booth Blah'. 'Toll Booh Blah'" and moved on to the next question. Like she was Alex Trebek and there was only one way to answer the question.

Meanwhile Google thought I was good enough to fly over for an in-person interview at around the same time, so I just wrote Facebook off as being terrible at hiring and moved on.

To date it's still the worst phone interview experience I've had, and I've had some awful ones.

[therealwill]

Is it Toll-Free Bridging?

[cableshaft]

Yep, that was it. Man, I really misremembered that. It's an Objective-C thing, which makes sense, because it was for an iOS position. I knew the idea behind it, but I had never encountered the term. I do remember I ran into it again while preparing for interviews again a year ago. I'm deep in .NET territory for work and Python for fun right now, so my iOS knowledge has atrophied a bit.

[mixmastamyk]

Yep, I lost an interview about ten years ago in part because I had not encountered the magic term "duck typing" yet. Never mind that I had be making file-like and string-io objects in Python for years by that time.

Don't get me started, tech interviewers are so bad...