Nice and respectful people. Unfair and frustrating results.

Applied online to a Senior Game Server Engineer. Two weeks later, a recruiter got in contact for a first screening and to schedule a one-hour interview with a technical director.

After the first interview, I was invited to a 4-hour panel consisting of coding, technical, cultural fit, and project management.

The interviews were quite straightforward, with no tricky or crazy hard questions like Amazon and Google.

The very next day, I got a call from the recruiter saying that I had received really good feedback from all interviewers, except one: a technical director from the cultural fit interview, stating I didn't have enough backend experience for the role.

This veto got everyone surprised, and I could tell by the voice of the recruiter that even he didn't know what to do, as I have 10+ years of experience on the matter and received that rejection note from a non-technical interview.

After a few days trying to workaround the situation, the recruiter came back with a closure, saying that the veto was not removed.

It was a fast, organized, and smooth process. It had everything to be a positive experience. Even if it didn't end as expected, knowing that a single person that doesn't like you can spoil everything with no explanation doesn't feel very good.

Medium Leetcode / HackerRank style question.

Describe a game and a server design.

Describe the software development life cycle.