Vertafore Software Engineer QA interview questions

HR seems to be all over the place. I had a friend who was interviewing around the same time as I did and they had different tasks and hoops to jump through for the same position. For me, I had a cognitive and personality assessment that I had to complete while filming myself. After that, I received an email for a "final interview" to come into the office and complete an in-person. The in person was with two members of the QA team who asked me three set of problems, one of which was white boarding and another which was code written on a Word document (see interview question). While overall the experience was fairly decent, I did move this to a negative experience interview due for two reasons: 1) The people interviewing me said I could pseudocode the answer and when I did, they asked me how to solve the problem and seemed intent on me providing an answer to them. Pseudocode should not be an option, then. 2) HR completely dropping the ball leading into my "final interview". My friend had a code challenge, cognitive and personality assessment, a call with HR and a call with the hiring manager. I never talked to anyone at the company until I walked in the doors the day of my interview. I had zero inkling based on their job description of what to expect. Additionally, the people I interviewed were not able to address all the negative reviews on Glassdoor for the Denver office (they blamed the reviews on an office that closed) nor were they able to talk about diversity in the company ("the CEO is female" is a start but it does not tell me how women or minorities are treated on a day to day basis). I did receive a follow up email not too long after the expected decision time that they had decided not to move forward with me, which I appreciated.