I applied online. The process took 2 weeks.

95% slated recruitment. I got the initial 30 minutes phone call with the recruiter. After that, I was advised to schedule a call for the next stage pair programming interview on their hiring platform. I scheduled within 1-2 days. However, my interview appointment was canceled a few days later. This is the 1st red flag.

The recruiter called me again 2 weeks later to clarify why I did not make the appointment. I told the recruiter it was canceled from your side. The recruiter rescheduled the interview for another day.

On the day of the pair programming interview, it went very well. The question was a tic-tac-toe game implementation in Python. I was fine to share my full screen during the interview, but the interviewer did not want me to do screen sharing. It was interesting that the interviewer asked me not to use any AI tools during the interview. How come they know it if I am not sharing my screen? This is the 2nd red flag.

I think it is around an easy to medium LeetCode level. I had interaction with the interviewer and completed the coding. On the next day, I received an email from the recruiter that they decided to proceed with other candidates. The email was a very generic and canned response. No specific feedback was given. Overall, this experience left me with a lot of questions and was not a fair process.

Any experience on lead role?

How many people did you lead in the team before?