I was contacted directly by the recruiter, and then the process started. I completed the following interviews:

• Interview with the recruiter
• Interview with a member of the dev team
• First interview with the hiring manager
• Three different interviews with three different devs
• Interview with a product manager
• Second interview with a manager

Yet another company that doesn't care about putting candidates through a cumbersome, very long process with many overlapping steps. Unfortunately, this kind of treatment is quite common nowadays.

Compared with other processes I've gone through, I think there is a complete lack of visibility throughout the whole process. The titles of each interview event did not provide any detail about the possible topics.

Since they knew I had another offer and I was in a complex moment, I thought the fact they asked me to go through seven interviews would have resulted in an offer. Instead, they told me I was discarded because I didn't have enough experience with Kubernetes. This is totally fine, and I probably would have done the same. However, I made this point clear from the very first moment, and I felt like they didn't care at all about the effort and time I was investing in the process.

I remember telling the recruiter: "I have another offer, let's start the process, but please consider that I only have some experience with Kubernetes. If it's a blocker, let's stop here."

The experience for me was really disappointing.

General questions on Java:

• Polymorphism
• JVM
• JRE
• JDK
• How parameters are passed to functions

BFS, data structure questions, space and time complexity.

Synchronization issues.

Writing some algorithms, code review of existing code.

Questions related to object-oriented languages.