I had given two cognitive assessments, followed by one technical assessment with some Lead Architects, and a final PDM round. In both cognitive assessments, my results were pretty good, as confirmed by the recruiter.

The technical round was good. The right questions were asked, and they were pretty standard.

The PDM round was shocking to me. The interviewer seemed absolutely non-technical, but he was pretending to be a jack of all trades. He asked me to literally spell out every single tech stack that I had mentioned in my CV.

You can imagine his technical competency just by this question: "Why are you using Spring Boot, which is a legacy application, to write microservices?"

Firstly, I couldn't even grasp the question. Once I asked him to repeat it, he got annoyed and said he didn't understand my current role.