A recruiter reached out to me and said i am great for a .net role. 3 steps 1) talk with the recruiter about my experience and why i would want to switch companies. 2) hacker rank test/exam. You have ~120 minutes to complete 11 questions, 9 multiple choice (http security, iis lifecycle, css), 1 coding (any language you wish, i did it in c#) and 1 sql question. 3) Interview with 3 developers on the team. 2 of them had to hop off 15 minutes into the interview The behavior questions are talking about my experience, past projects I worked on, how do i handle stress do i do code review technical questions What is SSO, Do you have any experience using any third party payment systems (eg: paypal, stripe) What is an API and how can you authenticate that you connected to that api server. Why i turned the offer done? 1) From the beginning of the interview stage i requested that i would like it to be remote. They said they will have to check if its okay but it should be fine, worst case it would be once a month in the office, which is okay for me. After two weeks of interview and to chase them down on the status. They told me is hybrid and that i have to come into the office 2-3 times a week. Even when they told me its okay for once a month, last minute they told me I have to come into the office. 2) The salary was no where close to what i wanted and they told me they can meet my desired salary, Overall, there was no good communication from the HR team. From the beginning and throughout the 3 interview phases, I had my request of remote and desired salary. After completing all 3 stages of the interview, passing the reference and background checks. They gave me an offer where i had to come into the office and a much lower salary.

Internal recruiter reached out on a hiring platform and arranged for a screening call. Thereafter, arranged a coding test over HackerRank. Having passed this assessment, had an hour long technical/behavioural interview - most questions were technical and involved being shown pasted snippets in a google doc. Quite awkward. Final interview with senior leaders. Feedback was prompt, but having shared my salary expectations at the outset, I was pretty shocked when I was offered a figure well below than the minimum I had communicated. I declined, but the recruiter indicated that another role was available which would be more in line with my expectations, so I agreed to continue interviewing. After completing the process, a month passed without feedback despite being told it would come within a week. No problem; along with a number of cultural red flags from the interview process, I feel I dodged a bullet.