There were 5 interviews, all online. Of these, 2 were technical interviews and 3 were with managers and HR. The process took 2 weeks, but at the end, I never received a reply.

The technical interviews targeted both algorithms (trees, stacks, strings, matrices, etc.) and very specific language quirks (PHP & JS).

The soft skills interviews with the foreign managers (from France and the US) were very nice; I felt I had good rapport with them.

The technical skills and soft skills interviews with the Romanian people felt very uncomfortable, as if they were trying to catch me out on something I didn't know or wasn't prepared for.

Although the position was for a developer, because of my experience as a technical lead, they insisted on management skills. However, they were not considering me for a management position, even though I asked.

They asked classic "give us the dirt on you" or "lie to us to pass this" type of questions during the "soft skills" interviews. I probably didn't pass because I was sincere.

Technical interviews were held by people who had nothing to do with the department the position was for, so the questions were generic. However, as I asked, to be considered for another position, I would have to start the interview process all over again. No thanks!

Why do you want to be a manager?

Describe a conflict with a colleague you were involved in.

How is it that you are in good relations with the colleague you had an argument with?

Give us a positive and a "constructive" feedback you received on your last evaluation.

Describe a situation where you took something personally.

JS: Build a function to promisify another function.

JS: Build a function using streams to do some text transformation on large amounts of text.

JS: Given a matrix with numbers ordered on the rows and columns, write an algorithm to determine the position of a given number.

PHP: Provide the manual example from generators (using yield).

Describe some OOP Design Patterns and talk about them.