(WEIRD) ROLE PLAY EXERCISE: There was a weird role play exercise where he pretended to be an investor, and I pretended to be the CEO of a tech startup... then he berated me on why our earnings statement was lower than expected. Before starting this exercise, I tried to gain more information that I could work with, but he gave me little to no information and pressured me to start the exercise. Within the role play, every time I tried to explain or defend the earnings statement, he would come up with some ADDITIONAL information about this imaginary earning statement. The exercise started with having the last quarter being lower than expected... but when we were into the role playing, suddenly the earning statements for MULTIPLE quarters were disappointing. The whole exercise was an awful experience and just seemed like an excuse to make the interviewee as uncomfortable as possible.