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An Onsite Interviewer Who Kept Turning His Camera On and Off

GrammarlySoftware Engineer · Onsite · Apr 2026

Coding: Design an in-memory key-value store that supports set, set, count(value) (how many keys currently hold this value), begin, commit, and rollback. This interviewer would easily rank as one of the worst interviewers I've ever had. He didn't communicate with me at all the whole time. Here's how it went: he said he was turning his camera off and I should spend a few minutes reading the problem…

Shared by a candidate · reported Apr 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.