Recruiter organized two phone calls with them. First interviewer was a nice person and got through to the next stage. After the second phone screen I got rejected. The whole process was quick, couple of days between the two calls. I would like to point out the second interviewer arrogant style and unconstructive/negative feedback after the interview which made me feel quite humilated. I interviewed at many places before but I have never come across such an arrogant and inflexible attitude. I would advise them the next time to send only a succint "Unfortunately we are not going to proceed forward." message instead of the belittling one which I received. Overall the place left quite a bad impression on me and this interviewing style is not good for the company's image at all.

Instead of the originally planned interviewer I was talking to a substitute. The call was plagued by a terrible connection quality on his side. He essentially went through a catalogue of low level programming questions most of which I could answer at least conceptually. The entire style was very much interrogation style with no effort to make the candidate feel comfortable. I had to repeat myself again and again on details like concurrency issues and floating point numbers since he did not really put in even minimal effort to understand what I was saying. All in all the outcome is certainly not the result of inability. I believe this company seriously needs to improve their recruitment. From what I read in other reports I am not the only one hit by such a strange interviewing style. Probably one has to get lucky not to be interviewed by one particular engineer to have a normal phone screen.