The recruiter was personable, very nice, bubbly. She was wearing a baseball cap (which apparently I'm not allowed to, can we all wear baseball caps?). The interview went well, and then out pops a surprise tech exam. In the 1st round. With a non-technical recruiter. So as if there aren't enough tech exams in the interview process already, now we have somebody neither understands the questions nor the answers asking a tech exam, as if it was a modern sport that everyone should have a crack at. Like a mechanical bull at a bar, insert coin here, ride the developer!