It just sounds like you're projecting your poor interview experiences onto me.
If you can't take a statement as unambiguous as "feel free to ask questions at any time" at face value, then why even bother interviewing?
And for the record, I've been the candidate in plenty of interviews. I've done the 5-hour FAANG interviews and know how shitty they are. It's why I specifically designed the coding interview process at my company to be much more candidate friendly.
It just sounds like you're projecting your poor interview experiences onto me.
If you can't take a statement as unambiguous as "feel free to ask questions at any time" at face value, then why even bother interviewing?
And for the record, I've been the candidate in plenty of interviews. I've done the 5-hour FAANG interviews and know how shitty they are. It's why I specifically designed the coding interview process at my company to be much more candidate friendly.