I was contacted by HR for a position I applied to, but did not meet the qualifications for.

The first round was mostly behavioral questions, mixed with a few situational questions with the hiring manager that touched on personal experience with the tech stack.

An onsite interview was scheduled and was originally planned to include meetings with 8 people.

The first interview with the organization's VP started 15 minutes late, which staggered the rest of the schedule.

Although friendly, the process was unorderly and made it seem as though they had never conducted an interview before.

Bringing a personal laptop was requested instead of Workday providing a loaner. This delayed some parts since the candidate shouldn't be assumed to have certain software requirements for the questions already installed on their personal laptop.

It was also strange that no whiteboard was provided to illustrate thought processes.

The last interviewer couldn't make it. A red flag was raised when the hiring manager expressed little interest, as no questions were posed, making it a one-sided conversation. This seemed like a waste of time for both of us.

It was very unprofessional when management allocated the team's time to interview a candidate in whom the manager had no interest, unless they were just looking for someone to fill the role and carry their tech debt.

Overall, the process could have been cleaner, and some of the interviewers were nice to talk to.

I received the HR rejection letter almost two weeks later.

Standard behavioral questions about your past experience and how you would handle conflicts or mistakes at work.

Questions that looked at your thought process and how you would tackle unseen problems in a regular day at work.

Technical questions covered their tech stack and included a demo to walkthrough certain DevOps configuration and deployment functionality.