The first call was supposed to be just a meet and greet, but it turned out to be a technical round, though it was easy.

The second round was a bit more technical, with three people in series, 30 minutes each. None of them showed their faces, as it was supposed to be a video screening. This is important because the candidate needs to assess the facial expressions of their interviewer for self-evaluation.

After clearing the technical questions of all three folks, I qualified for another round, which was also technical with three more folks. I cleared that one also because I was asked to take another round with the hiring manager, but no schedule was provided by the recruiter.

I told my recruiter that I was smelling some nepotism because a Bank of America-like company cannot let go of a candidate who clears all technical rounds. The recruiter said, "No, it's just the hiring manager who wants to speak with you before making a final decision."

After a couple of weeks, I got to speak with the hiring manager. He knew my older boss and asked me why my older boss was not hiring me now. I thought, "How on earth can someone ask this absurd and stupid question?" I replied that I have worked under many managers and I don't expect that they should hire me just because I worked for them in the past.

He seemed like he was diverting the discussion to my previous roles and work history. After some dot-connecting, I can make this claim: the hiring manager himself hired just because he knew someone, rather than based on his own skills, because a self-made person cannot spew this kind of garbage out of their mouth.

The hiring manager was Indian, as his accent seemed to indicate, and made it the final round as a technical round, and started asking my Python questions. He couldn't even pronounce the word 'tuple' and said 'topal'. I pronounced it the proper way, then he started sounding like he was saying the same thing.

He seemed like he had made his decision and needed a reason to reject me so he could sleep at night. Or maybe for his internal audit or transparency, he wanted to show that he spoke with every candidate and chose the best one.

Even the recruiter started agreeing with me that usually there is only one technical round, max two. But the third technical round was just to disqualify me, which the hiring manager couldn't and finally had to speak with me after a couple of weeks just for a formality.

It seemed like all other candidates were disqualified, and the hiring manager needed another couple of weeks to look for his own buddy to fill this open role. What a pity.

Writing Python code and finding three numbers in a list whose sum is equal to another provided number.

SQL questions about subqueries and joining two tables.

Given three doors, with only one leading to success. If we choose one and are asked to change the answer, provided that the other two may have success.

Given two large files. File 1 needs to be made the same as File 2 using given operations. A conceptual question to check the approach of the solution.

What kind of tools have you used in your testing?

Why are you leaving your current job?

Any challenge you met that you are really proud of?