Only positive impression It's about 1.5 hours interview with practical experience accentuation Mostly about code reading and writing + some English level checking for non-natives You can easy pass it with middle/middle+ C++ level

I interviewed for a role of C++ developer in Zurich. First round with HR went well, very responsive and helpful lady. Second round, the techical one, was a nightmare of every developer out there. For some reason post-USSR C++ programmers think that it is necessary for every developer to know C++ internals inside out to be able to write programs in it. But I was not applying for a position of C++ compiler developer nor for a C++ standard committee member. Questions about vtable, backing implementation of a deque or a very smart (deliberately obfuscated) "what happens if birds could swim" questions are meant to confuse and to fail a candidate, not to assess a candidate's ability to write programs in C++. 1.5 hours of grilling on every imaginable detail of C++ internals and tricky and confusing "what will this print?". And OF COURSE classic ghosting in the end.