How does implicit wait of Protractor interact with explicit wait?

Question

The misunderstanding happens when implicit wait is less than explicit:

var timeOut = 5000;
var search = element(by.xpath(`//*[@name=\'qwer\']`));
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Answer 1

The answer is: both waits wait in parallel. Implicit wait polls 4 seconds and returns failure after which explicit wait has waited only 4 seconds and has 1 more to go. This reissues implicit wait again and it polls another 4 seconds and fails again. After 8 seconds (2 attempts of implicit wait) explicit wait of 5 seconds also timed out and we finally we have our error after wasting 3 unexpected seconds. For example in case of Implicit set to 8 and Explicit set to 17 we will wait for 8*3 = 24 seconds. Note that script execution takes some time so if it's slow next iteration might not start.