Interviewed for Hyderabad location. The overall interview process was well-structured: business discussions and leadership rounds were strong, and the HR team was professional and supportive throughout.

However, the entire experience was ruined by one technical round, which was handled extremely poorly and left a deeply negative impression.

The interviewer (based in Canada and calling himself an MLOps engineer, despite lacking even fundamental MLOps knowledge) repeatedly interrupted explanations, dismissed valid approaches, and insisted I rewrite working code just to match his own thinking. Instead of objectively evaluating my skills, the round became an exercise in proving himself right.

This was particularly disappointing because I was interviewing for a senior role and have more real-world experience than the interviewer himself. Yet the evaluation was conducted by someone who lacked both depth of technical understanding and the ability to conduct a structured interview, struggling even with core concepts when the discussion got deeper.

When interviewing senior candidates expected to lead and mentor teams, companies must ensure that qualified, experienced interviewers are assessing them. Allowing junior-level engineers with limited knowledge to lead such critical rounds reflects poorly on the hiring process and causes the company to lose strong talent.

After spending weeks progressing through multiple rounds and even accommodating a late-night interview that lasted nearly two hours, it was extremely disappointing to be rejected based solely on feedback from this mishandled round.

Random LeetCode and data processing libraries.