Of the five engineers who interviewed me, only one asked questions that would distinguish a good engineer from a mediocre one.

One interviewer asked a series of puzzles; most of them were easy and told the interviewer nothing about my ability to write readable, testable, or correct code.

Another interviewer ran out of questions after eight minutes (I checked my watch).

A third interviewer, a front-end engineer, asked me questions about front-end work even though I very clearly stated that I was a backend engineer and had no interest in working on the front end.

The technical staff seemed fairly junior, and the company appeared to have tremendous technical debt.

Probably the best question I was asked went along the lines of: when designing an API between front-end/UI code and backend servers, what technologies would you choose? And, more importantly, why would you choose one over the other?