1. Recruiter reached out and asked initial screening questions.
2. Tech Round 1: Technical questions on cloud, DevOps, Linux, and automation.
3. Tech Round 2: All questions based on previous projects and complete chitchat with an IIT graduate with 2 years of experience. Very basic questions about education and professional career. More like a general discussion. The manager was also present but was silent most of the time.
4. 4th Round: Director from Japan (Indian) asked a couple of questions about job change, avoiding unnecessary leaves, Japanese work culture, and managing work pressures. Also asked a couple of core networking concepts.

Next day: Later, HR called me and confirmed I was selected. He conducted the HR discussion over the phone and also collected counter offers (asking to share the complete email thread of the counter offer from the other company).

He said the offer would be released in 2 hours and that he had approval from management.

Then I didn't receive the offer even after the evening. Later he called and asked to interview with a different project team because they had more budget and could offer more than the counter.

He said, "If I don't clear that round or if I don't like the tech stack/project, I will get the offer from the project for which I was interviewed before."

Tech round with the new project: The panel was unprofessional and conducted an interview completely on Linux and core networking. The questions were more about their current process, and the interviewer was not willing to know my area of expertise or my current work. It felt more like a process to not select me.

After that, HR started giving reasons by avoiding me from getting any feedback, or he didn't share the further steps.

Almost 2 weeks wasted without sharing any information.

HR was not picking up the call and was borrowing more time.

Later, he told me the old project manager said he didn't have a budget and decided to move with another candidate. And the new project, for which I interviewed, also closed the position.

"Here, they wasted my time successfully by lying and building wrong expectations."

HR was stating it was a mistake from the hiring manager. But in the end, it's my time wasted. There is no professionalism in the interview process. We cannot trust Rakuten even after we get a job offer/confirmation.

How will you manage your leaves?

How is the application built and deployed, end to end lifecycle?