This was a terrible process. The recruiter screen was OK but the next technical interview was bizarre (easily the worst one of my career). I have both interviewed numerous candidates and been interviewed myself several times. The interviewer was really inexperienced (less than a third of my overall experience) which is OK, but he was also very rigid in the interview format. I could tell that he had very little experience by how we responded to some of my questions (follow up and asking about the team/project). It didn't feel like he read my resume ...there were a lot of "Uhhhh, so do you have experience in .... (thing on my resume)". The actual technical part was unrelated to my background in the last 6 years and we never actually discussed anything in my background (past projects, tech, etc). The interviewer seemed confused to any follow up questions on these. The behavioral part felt like ChatGPT interview questions. At the end he went into the project and what they were doing. It turned out to be extremely relevant to my past experience but I had 3 minutes left in the interview and couldn't go into that in any detail. This kind of thing is the classic inexperience interviewer tell. Interviews should be flexible and highlight the best in the candidate. This person should really be re-trained on how to interview. At my previous companies, people with this little experience would not be interviewing people.

1. Brief 20 minute call with recruiter 2. 40 minute call with Software Hiring Manager? Don't remember full title They're VERY into LLM usage. To the point where they vibe code their software. You've been warned.