Musings on IT and programming

On the last months I had a couple of the most aggressive interviews on my current job hunt.  It started with one of the interviewers stating that I was being recorded and that all answers should be provided from the top of my head, that if I looked elsewhere it would be considered as cheating and against my candidacy.  Wait what? Are you serious?  This is a senior or staff level position.  If you do not trust me to even do an interview why start this process at all?  Then while talking about technology we were discussing concepts and this same individual starts to talk about specifics and "educates" the candidate and tells me to validate this afterwards.  Come on, of course I will not contradict you, but if this is the kind of culture you are allowing count me out. Then on to systems design on whiteboard. Here I'm asking lots of questions regarding the domain and all they answer is to make an assumption. Then they start asking how to develop the solution but there is a ca