I was messaged on LinkedIn by somebody who said I have promising skills. I wasn't close enough to graduation yet, so they advised me to connect closer to my graduation date. I did.

I emailed back and forth until I took the skills assessment test, which I basically got an A on. This is the only part where they likely obtained substantial information about my abilities. The recruiter who orchestrated the whole process was also extremely nice.

First was the phone interview with the recruiter, which was very basic. It mainly consisted of questions about my resume. She asked what my top three programming languages were. After that, we scheduled the first in-person interview.

The first interview was okay. There were no highly technical or coding questions. The interviewers were nice, and the conversation flowed well. Honestly, I would have felt more comfortable demonstrating my skills directly rather than answering random questions. Apparently, they deemed me good enough for a second in-person interview.

This second interview lasted about 20 minutes.

The second interview felt extremely pointless. It lasted only 5 minutes. It was impossible to gauge the interviewer's thoughts on anything. It was mostly "behavioral" and "personality" questions that could have been answered by simply looking at my resume. I waited the entire time for more relevant questions. It's no wonder I didn't receive an offer, as they likely learned nothing substantial about me based on their questions.

Overall, I'm slightly annoyed that after the entire process, the reason I didn't get an offer was that I needed a bit more experience. This seems easily determinable from my resume and the fact that I am graduating soon. Somebody contacted me to begin with, and I heard they had good training programs, which is why I thought they wouldn't expect extensive prior experience.

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