Fuck Microsoft's diversity initiatives. I almost assuredly got put into an interview loop where a bunch of managers had to check a box to interview a diverse candidate. (I'm latino).

I didn't know it at the time but when I looked into it more, I realized 1. My recruiter was a DEI recruiter 2. The people interviewing me were the most unengaged, unprofessional interviewers I've encountered in my almost 20 year long career.

There were behavioral and technical interviews all in 45 minutes combined, and I got asked leetcode hards in two of the interviews, with only about 25 minutes to solve them.

One of the interviewers didn't even understand the question they were asking, was shocked I coded up actual working code, and confused on what I did. I ended up having to explain to them how they were wrong about some of their assumptions about question.

Fucking clowns. DEI recruiters suck. Two of the managers I met were in my opinion technically incompetent. The only competent guy that interviewed me was kind of an asshole to ask a LC hard and expect a solution in 25 minutes (that I didn't get an optimal solution for).