The initial HR call involved a very long and unnecessary phone screening. It included numerous questions covering database concepts, data structures and algorithms, software engineering principles, TDD, BDD, DDD, event-driven architecture, cloud technologies, CI/CD, programming languages, and some cultural questions interspersed throughout. Honestly, I lost track of the total number of questions.

Partway through, I began to question whether the interviewer was truly qualified to ask such in-depth technical questions, as an HR representative is not typically an expert in these fields.

My expectation for this first call was to learn about the company culture and its people by speaking with an HR representative. This did not happen.

While it's acceptable to ask a few technical questions during an initial call, an HR person is generally not competent enough to ask many technical questions because they simply don't understand the concepts.

I say this based on my experience interviewing with companies much larger than this one, and I have never encountered such a ridiculous HR screening call.

I suspect there was no genuine intention to hire, which is why the technical questions were assigned to an HR representative to ask.

I declined to proceed to the next step.

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