Round 1: This was with an Engineering Leader from the BFSI domain; they are growing. He was distracted during the interview 3-4 times. He asked me why I was looking for a new role and enquired about my background and my experience with scale. I wish the interviewer had been a better listener.

Round 2: Technical Round with a Senior member of the Tech team. Another engineer was shadowing the round. They asked me to pick a project and talk about the design choices, scale, etc. Overall, it was a design that my team and I had driven, and it's a proven one. I was able to answer most, if not all, questions posed to me regarding complexity, scale, idempotency, availability, etc. Either the interviewer was unable to understand the simple system I explained, in which case he should have presented a problem he wanted to discuss, or the interviewer never switched on his video during the entire interview. This shows less engagement and provides a poor candidate experience.

Past experience.

Technical questions related to scale, etc.