Interesting

I’m in the market for a new job as a senior full stack developer. I recently had a 2nd round interview with an online eCommerce company. Given that I am looking for a job that is remote and with job security, considering the circumstances around my current organization deciding to return to office on short notice, I felt good about this interview because it checked the boxes on paper. Anyways, the interview started off pretty good but progressively got worse. There were definitely some friction because I did not have experience building automated test to ensure functionality and uptime of applications. Even though for this role and ecosystem an app that robust isn’t necessary. Could I do it? Sure I probably could - I have 10 years of experience with development, but have I? No. After the questions, the interviewer decided to do a role playing scenario. The scenario was I owned an elevator company and had to sell an elevator to a building the interviewer owned. Literally. What. The. Fuck. I have no experience with elevators, electrical knowledge, or the awareness of what is needed to properly install an elevator. This went on for 20 minutes. Nothing but straight bullshitting having to act like I know what I’m talking about. The guy starts asking me all these questions that I clearly don’t know anything about or have any relevance with. At the beginning he made it sound like it was an apartment building then half way through the scenario he says the building is for a school and there are 20 kids and three floors with 5 rooms. And just completely continued to flip it around changing things and creating obstacles. At the end, not much more was said. I’m not sure if this was a scenario that ai gave him to assess whether developers and programmers are good problem solvers but it was definitely a first in the 100s of interviews I’ve been a part of in the last ten years. I’m still wrapping my head around the experience and trying to put them together but I can’t. Just curious to hear anyone else’s random interview experiences that have taken place - where when it ended you thought to yourself, wtf was that?