[cipheredStones]

This is the entirety of the post's description of the interviewer and the interview itself:

> He introduced himself and we settled into the usual ritual of a phone screen. ... He gave me a coderpad link. ... It presented a simple data structure and asked me to do some filtering based on a set of constraints. ... He kindly ended the interview and asked if I had any questions.

Everything else is about the author struggling and being anxious. Where do you get "stereotypical brogrammer hazing"?

[neilv]

Because traditionally good software engineers in an interview would treat each other as colleagues, not turn the meeting into a one-way hazing.

The CS101 hazing interview style was popularized by some CS students with no work experience, and then cargo-culted as religious rituals by others who also didn't have any other conception of what interviews for experienced professionals should be.

[__float]

Do you think interviewers at a company this size are deciding how interviews are run? They're basically just following a script.