DISH Software Engineer interview questions

I was contacted by a recruiter and was scheduled for an in-person interview the next day at Dish. I arrived on time and was shown to the interview room. We discussed my current projects, my experience at my last employer, etc. One interviewer was late out of three. Unfortunately, this appeared to be the only person in the interview with real technical skill. They offered no apology or explanation for being late, and I had to go back over previous answers. I was asked to create small, simple python programs on paper. I did so. Finally, I was asked to design a stack. The person asking this question apparently did not know what a stack was, and preferred a design which was not a stack - instead, the interviewer wanted two stacks, and they wanted a dequeue operation on stack A to result in reordering and moving all elements of A to B. This bears no resemblance to any LIFO or FIFO stack I have ever seen, nor does it appear to be a useful structure in any way. I was not asked to show any prior work, and the interviewers actually seemed more interested in trying to prove that I could not code by using wordplay and gotchas. I believe this team is hiring incompetent developers, and after doing a little research, found that they use H1B visas with far greater frequency than any other employer in the area.

This process was doomed from the start. I applied on their website for a Full Stack Developer position. I received an email from their recruiter to set up a phone screen for the Senior Java Engineer position (which I did not apply for). During the phone screen, I told the recruiter that I did not apply for that role which she understood. She asked typical background information and then told me to take their questionnaire test. The questionnaire was divided into 3 sections (math, english, technical). After this I set up the third stage which was a WebEx technical interview. The day leading up to the technical interview, I received 2 rejection emails (one for a Software Engineer II position and the other for a Software Engineer I position). I still did the WebEx tech interview which was a standard tech interview. After this step, I received a rejection email for the Senior Java Engineer role. At this point, I didn't even bother to try and correct them.