The interview process was easy. I applied through LinkedIn and eventually received a call from HR. HR discussed basic details and scheduled my interview.

The interview happened on time and as per schedule, and that's where I was disappointed.

I am a candidate with over 10 years of experience, having worked across various domains in Linux, including platform development, virtualization, cloud development, and storage.

The interview started, and I was able to quickly recognize that the interviewer was not from the hiring team.

To my surprise, the interviewer started and stuck to questions that anyone would ask a college passout, such as trees and linked lists.

It is often the case that as people grow in experience and explore newer things, the concepts remain with them, but writing studious code gets left behind. The same was the case with me.

My disappointment stemmed from the fact that there was no discussion of the role or required skills.

If that was the case, HR should have informed me that the first round would be a basic coding round focused on data structures.

Basic data structures question around tree, linked list.