The first interview was an HR screening. The HR representative was based in Austria and was unaware of the benefits package for Ireland. Despite this, they insisted on me providing a base salary expectation without full package details.

The second interview was with the engineering manager. This interview was positive, with a good discussion from both sides.

They are potentially opening an office in Dublin, but with no office location yet and a potential two-day minimum return-to-office policy, you might be committing to significant commuting time without a guaranteed remote-working exemption.

The third interview was a solo, one-hour technical interview with the team captain for the Java agent team. I have experience writing Java agents in C, possess 28 years of experience (21 in Java), and previously wrote my own Java disassembler from scratch.

However, I made two minor errors on threading and pass-by-value versus pass-by-reference. I received a call today informing me they would not be proceeding. This outcome may reflect a flaw in the interview process or a discrepancy with my reasonable market-rate salary expectation.

Q. What is the J.I.T. ?