I was asked to write a pretty standard flood fill function and wrote a few lines of pseudocode. The interviewer was visibly annoyed to the point that he actually muttered an f-word under his breath. He said he wanted to see some code and some design patterns. It quickly became apparent that by "code" he means code in some prehistoric version of C from the 90's , and "design patterns" mean pointer arithmetic mostly. It also became painfully obvious that I am dealing with a cash strapped team operating antiquated hardware and software lead by a fresh PhD all too eager to get even with the world for the years of abuse suffered as an international student at a Grad school somewhere in rural Midwest. He obviously considered the interview process as some sort of a reality entertainment show on company's dime. His next question was about data labeling tools - he expected me to name and describe several of those. At that point I was concerned on a number of levels. Data labeling is a pretty tedious process. US based companies usually try to outsource it to avoid paying US$ for long hours spent labeling data over and over again, or at the very least bootstrap from some pre-labeled online data set. Or automate the process using a public database of some sort. No, apparently that's not a concern here. Just manually label it after hours... He was going to ask something about CUDA but I decided to wrap up the interview and basically said that I have no idea what it is and what it is used for. He yelled that I have it on my resume. No Sir. I am sure you have a lot of interesting and entertaining CUDA questions like how many primitives does cuda7 have or what's the signature for matrix multiplication function, but .."These are not the droids you are looking for". Good luck with whatever you are trying to accomplish and I will keep you and your team in my thoughts and prayers. P.S. The parking lot was still full when I was leaving at about 6 pm. Another proof that certain qualities in management result in guaranteed overtime for the team. Good luck to you, guys. I mean, best of luck seriously, no sarcasm involved.