I've been interviewing recently and it does suck just as described here, so I'm glad somebody called out these issues. One company I talked to was like a caric

I've been interviewing recently and it does suck just as described here, so I'm glad somebody called out these issues. One company I talked to was like a caricature of the bad startup interview: we have a billionaire founder, we have wine on tap, a totally disorganized 4-hour series of discussions where the first person just sat down and started quizzing me with hardly an introduction, and I had to ask the second interviewer how many people I'd be talking to, technical questions ranging from the simple to somewhat difficult (using paper and pencil), with less and less time for each because they couldn't follow their own schedule, followed by an interview with an arrogant, hypercaffeinated CTO, consisting of two brain teaser questions and a series of elevator pitches, all in a tiny glass room near the back storage area, devoid of oxygen. And the following week I found out, sorry, they'd cut funding for the position the day before I came in.