Candidate Shares Frustrating Interview Experience After Struggling with Technical and Behavioral Assessments

The author of the post describes having gone through what they consider the worst interview of their life for a validation engineer position, which included a technical assessment (coding test) and a behavioral section. They explain that the technical part went poorly due to a lack of recent programming practice. The behavioral portion was also impacted by their discouragement, although they felt they had mastered most of the expected answers. Despite four years of experience in cybersecurity, they express a strong sense of incompetence.