I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. The process was quite long, slow, and tiring. It consisted of an HR screening, a technical test, an architecture test, a cultural fit, and an interview with the manager. The HR screening is quite simple, just to know if you are not crazy. The technical test gives a little work, has some tricks, and is even nice to do. I didn't like the architecture test. They placed two interviewers, one of whom looked like a software factory boss or a manager of those IT departments of a more traditional company who kept dictating everything that had to be done and didn't accept any proposal. If the idea was to make me feel in a software team, the impression left was terrible, that I would be entering a very vertical structure. The other interviewer barely had space. Another point is that no formal architecture notation language like C4 or MDL is used. The guide said that the solution doesn't need to work, to focus more on the interaction, but I felt that it has to work and perfectly. Cultural fit is calm. The phases are very subjective; it depends a lot on who is going to interview and how they will interpret the tests, but I advance that it has nothing to do with the guide. The idea of what is expected is very vague. There is no defined place that you are going to enter; it is all very vague and subjective. I think it is not worth the risk; in my case, it would not solve any of my expectations and would perhaps create worse problems than the ones I already face. Besides, you are going to enter a company that uses tools that no one in the market uses, and whoever is in line to enter should consider this risk.

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