Jack Henry & Associates interview questions

Fair and reasonable. Not too stressful. Relevant questions. Had to do a software project on my own time and submit it which was challenging while still working a full time job.

This was for a DevOps/Infrastructure engineer role at Jack Henry's Banno. First round (initial screening) was with the hiring manager, this round went well. Second round (tech interview) was in front of a panel of 7 people; they said there would've been 9 if the other two weren't out. The volume of people was the first big red flag. It takes a combination of 9 people and their biases to make a decision on a single candidate? The entire interview was a trivia where they took turns asking questions with specific answers that you could pull from a textbook or docs pages. Most of their questions were extremely specific and nuanced, and only accounted for their own perspective in working with certain technologies, not accounting for other ways to work with those same technologies. I'm a Principal Engineer with well over ten years of experience, and this interview felt like I was a brand-new college graduate interviewing for an entry-level role. They didn't ask questions about my background, how I've used technologies x or y, and they didn't give me the opportunity to dive into any of that. When I didn't answer some of their questions precisely in the way they wanted me to, their tone and demeanor quickly became insulting. There were two individuals on this panel in particular whose attitudes were so bad that they swayed my decision to not work with this team. One of them asked questions in the most vague and confusing ways, and he became increasingly frustrated when I asked him to articulate his questions differently. I still don't understand some of his questions. After this interview I informed the recruiter that I am no longer interested in the role.