Recruiter reached out, did 6 rounds. Mostly over zoom, some phone. Coderpad for the coding round, miro for the systems design. The rest were talking.
The standout interview for me was the technical round. There was a very convoluted data iterating problem which was not very hard but there was a lot of extraneous information. The idea was to reduce the data and then do a summing / max / avg thing.
The interviewer said he'd like to see how I was thinking, but all he did was critique every word I put down. One of those guys who has to mention if you miss a bracket .3 seconds after you press a key. I had to ask him to give me some room to think the problem over. He could not stop talking while I was trying to reason the problem and was all in all fairly rude.
In another round I was asked to give my philosophy on Mentorship, but then the feedback given was that I did not give specific examples. The question was for ethos, not situations.
The Software Manager I interviewed with was great and had a great outlook and vision for the company.
When I asked about the job responsibilities, they were marketing it as a "senior software position" but as I got more into specifics, they are just looking for someone to revamp old Django code.
Over all an off-putting experience because the recruiter was so keen and made me feel like the company was interested, but after interviewing it feels like it's just an average dev shop with big time tech debt and serious culture issues. Recommend to avoid