I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day.

The recruiter reached out to me over LinkedIn. The first interview was just a technical screening round about my current project, a problem-solving question, and the general questions on how the internet works. The interviewer had no idea about the role he was interviewing me for, which is a RED FLAG for me.

I'm working at a very large organization with 4.6K employees comprising of at least 20-30 engineering teams. And the interviewer grilled me over why all the teams don't work with the same technology, design conventions.

To me, this sounds like a pretty baseless question as anyone as an individual cannot really answer on the behalf of other teams. The interviewer had NO KNOWLEDGE of GraphQL and kept asking me why do I not use SQL instead of GraphQL.

I got tired of explaining to him that both technologies have different use cases and have NO COMPARISON! Even though if I do clear this interview, I might not proceed with a 2nd one as I had a pretty frustrating experience with the 1st one alone.

• Questions about the current project • Difference between GraphQL and SQL • How is scalability handled at my organization • How does the internet work when I enter a URL • Explain a time I handled a critical production issue • Add two 100 digit numbers in an environment that supports numbers up to only 10 digits