I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks.

This was one of the funniest interviews in my career. Steps were: 1. Phone screen call from recruiter. She gave some information about Hinge Health, what they are building and answered my questions. 2. Home take assessment. It was a task to build rest API with crud operation on tree nodes, and an endpoint to return the full tree. It was pretty easy, I implemented using typescript + nodejs + express. I used layered architecture, with validation and security best practices. I did like the task, it was close to what you would be doing at work. I received an email that it was accepted well, and company wants to move forward with the hiring process. And there was a video meeting scheduled with a Senior Manager of Engineering, for 90 minutes! 3.

Video meeting with Senior Manager of Engineering - it's the stage that I failed So I have around 10 years of experience, During my career I worked with wide range of technologies from plain javascript/jquery, pure Java servlets/jsp, weblogic server to latest cutting edge technologies like fully serverless distributed APIs.

But manager was asking questions related to my workplaces, and repeating these questions for each work place: a) stuff you are proud doing there b) things you are not proud c) how would you rate your performance from 0 to 10 d) who you were reporting to e) how would your manager rate your performance from 0 to 10 For all rating answers I told that my rate would be at least 8-9 from 10, because really I always was one of best engineers in whole company, and was given tech lead positions in most work places. Okay I can remember last 2 places, are you serious when you ask me about the work I've done in 2014?

I started to feel that I was being hired to military, and the only important thing in the interview was how I obey the commands from upper management Then when "manager" took all notes, and asked me if I have questions. I started to ask technical questions about the APIs, deployment style, database, messaging they use etc, and the manager didn't know some answers. I started to feel a little bit confused, because noticed that Senior Manager of Engineering look stressed out, when I asked this kind of technical questions. I was thinking manager was a technical person. So next day I got email that they decided not to move forward.

I expected to hear that decision, when I saw face of the manager at the last part of the interview, I am sure Hinge Health lost a lot of good engineers because of this "technical" round

1. Home take assessment 2. Weird psychological kind of questions how good guy you are