PowerShop Senior Software Developer interview questions

After applying online and completing an online coding test, I attended an interview where a large panel of staff set about drilling for information and deciding if I was good enough. A series of technical questions were posed, quite specific to Powershop, which is understandable, however they are rather rude about your skills if you're not experienced in Ruby (weird, since they were expecting non-ruby devs according to their ads) or according to them "not at their level". Very condescending, rubbishing of anything non-ruby and quite arrogant.

Multi stage interview: -Online application with cv -Programming challenge -Skype interview -Face to face interview with several senior Powershop developers -Final interview: **A pseudo code challenge; two loops that append to a string in very ugly pseudo code. Felt like a question to stump people instead of testing their skill. Important: they're looking for the geometric shape that is printed to the screen and none of the other variables are important. It is a multiline string (several newlines). I recommend rewriting into your own pseudocode and getting the value of the string for every iteration of the loop. **A relational database schema design question; eg: design a database for a hospital. **An hour to make program that solves a given task eg: writing a blackjack game. They watch over your shoulder whilst you write the code. They did not require unit tests but I wrote it TDD, which took more time. Strongly suggest skipping unit tests for time sake.