1. HR reached out for an initial Zoom meeting to explain the role and understand my experience.

2. Zoom meeting with the Hiring Manager to understand my skills in more detail and explain about the role and company, salary expectations, and etc.

3. Invited for a loop interview, 5 hours with 5 different interviewers, including a bartender. For this, I had to take a day off from my current work.

4. After a month from the loop interview, HR called to say the interview was very positive and asked a few more questions regarding security clearance (travel in the last 5 years, citizenship, etc. - there was no reason for the clearance to be rejected).

5. After 3 days, HR called to say they could not offer me the position because my salary expectation was high for this role.

I was very disappointed because they plainly wasted my time. I was asked for my desired salary at the first stage of the interview, and they rejected me on that basis at the end.

Lots of behavioral questions, but there were technical questions as well.

1. How do you troubleshoot an issue if one device accesses a database/application?
2. Some basic cloud computing concepts.
3. What virtualization do you use for Linux?
4. What do your colleagues and manager say about you?
5. Have you made a mistake during your work, and what did you learn from it?
6. Tell me about yourself.
7. Tell me about a time you received pushback regarding a project.
8. Tell me about a difficult time during your work/project, and how did you handle it?