I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Vision Direct (London, England) in Oct 2018
Interview
No pleasantries, straight into a 1 hour technical interview, no interest in you as a person or experience you were bringing to the role. Interviewer had a very thick accent which didn't help.
Practical test using laptop, was told I had 15 minutes to study three database tables but asked to hear my findings after only 5 minutes. No clear objective.
I was poorly prepared but the interview was not welcoming and solely aimed at hiring a code monkey.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Draw architecture of previous data warehouse project on whiteboard